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January 9, 2009

Friday's News & Ideas

The death of a master combatant in theology and politics, an analogy to Augustine on the Roland Burris controversy, and a question as to whether we can really live without environmental impact (there's no question as to the value of book contracts for those who claim they do).

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August 12, 2009

Wednesday's News & Ideas

  • The delusions of Rome
  • Christ at the center
  • 3 a.m. shepherd
  • What’s going on in that baby head?
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October 16, 2009

Tom Arthur: A younger pastor seeks advice from an elder

Most mainline seminaries prepare pastors for the church as it was decades ago. But what if the prototypical church now is Willow Creek?

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January 13, 2009

Tuesday's News & Ideas

Yet another presidential pray-er, unhealthy clergy, and seminaries squeezed by the economic collapse. For the gospel to be good news, we have to glance at the bad news first.

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September 10, 2009

Thursday's News & Ideas

  • Christian bluster
  • Lessons from a tough year
  • Think like a Christian
  • Images of Wow!
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November 9, 2009

Monday's News & Ideas

  • Sing in a minor key
  • Sunset for fundamentalism
  • Astrobiology has arrived
  • Be entrepreneurial
  • Pushing the parchment ceiling
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May 7, 2009

Prince Rivers: I won’t pray at your city council meeting

Want a public prayer? How about 'Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!'

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October 2, 2009

Friday's News & Ideas

  • Afraid to get help
  • Dumb CEO decisions
  • Hondurans turn to La Morenita
  • Revelation is outrageous
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February 4, 2010

Norman Sandridge: The limitations of metaphors for leadership

There may not be a perfect metaphor for leadership. Does "shepherd" really work?

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July 30, 2009

Roger Owens: Sure numbers matter -- if you count right

Amidst the debate on whether numbers matter in church, why have we failed to be more creative about which numbers we count?

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