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March 12, 2010

Friday's News & Ideas

  • Hot topic for historians
  • Scary ushers
  • The innovator’s DNA
  • Celibacy to blame?
  • Clothing and the soul
  • Keep the homily brief
  • ‘One nation under God’
  • ‘War porn’
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March 12, 2010

Mark Chaves: What congregations are more political?

You might think white conservative Protestants are more political than black or mainline Protestants or Catholics. You’d be wrong.

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March 11, 2010

Thursday's News & Ideas

  • Death of the black church?
  • Pope’s defining moment?
  • LOL @ work
  • Tired of living?
  • Tax credit for 'family friendly films'
  • The overpopulation myth
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March 11, 2010

Lisa Nichols Hickman: Jesus heals not just the sick, but caregivers

Being a full-time caregiver can be a crummy job. But you know what Jesus does with crumbs.

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March 10, 2010

Wednesday's News & Ideas

  • New Baptist hymnal
  • Hologram preachers
  • Apology from Pope’s brother
  • Religiosity and business risks
  • Canadian Anglicans turn to Twitter
  • What sex is your brain?
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March 10, 2010

Anthony B. Robinson: The pastor (and Jesus) as cage-fighter

Maybe the new, counter-intuitive formula for church growth is this: be a stark alternative to whatever the dominant culture offers.

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March 9, 2010

Tuesday's News & Ideas

  • A word from Tutu
  • Religious bigotry
  • We’re all theologians
  • ‘Now I lay me down to sleep. . .’
  • UMC giving down
  • Young pastor brings new life
  • King James and the American writer
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March 9, 2010

Scott Benhase: The reptilian and the limbic

Before we can lead anyone, they have to know they are safe and included.

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March 9, 2010

John W. Kuykendall: The Christian alumni club

Didn’t Mother Teresa go on serving for the many years when she couldn’t believe?

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March 8, 2010

Monday's News & Ideas

  • Protestant on the Supreme Court?
  • Churchianity
  • Anti-abortion drive
  • Osteen in the UK
  • Lost Jewish tribe of Zimbabwe
  • Mysticism is dying
  • Placebo effect
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March 7, 2010

Michael Jinkins: The church’s real competition is henotheism

Henotheism, which replaces the worship of Jesus Christ with a lesser deity, isn’t a common word, but is a common faith.

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March 7, 2010

Jason Byassee: The confession manifesto

Atul Gawande’s terrifically readable new book not only convinces me of the utility of checklists. It provides a secular example of St. Augustine’s greatest teaching: confession.

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March 5, 2010

Friday's News & Ideas

  • The religious blogosphere
  • Stone the whale
  • Great Gathering wrap-up
  • CEOs don’t get innovation
  • Genuine Indian holy man
  • Two kinds of bishops
  • Atheist givers
  • Our myopic view of aging
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March 5, 2010

Gannon Sims: Business as evangelism?

“Business leaders will be the evangelists of the 21st century.”

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March 4, 2010

Thursday's News & Ideas

  • Chaplin of the Colbert Report
  • ‘Tick-box’ society
  • Spiritual care at the end of life
  • Undercover church lady
  • Design thinking
  • Barry Hannah on Jesus
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