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March 19, 2013

Tuesday's News & Ideas

  • Pope installed
  • Sympathy for a suffering church
  • Atheist Lent
  • UMC behind bars
  • New movie Moses
  • Learning to love the bomb
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March 18, 2013

Monday's News & Ideas

  • Pope's biggest challenges
  • The 'other' in prison
  • New Philips Seminary dean
  • Peering over the wall we built
  • Mormon scripture changes
  • Inevitable progress isn't
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March 15, 2013

Friday's News & Ideas

  • Why non-Catholics should care
  • No innovation without tradition
  • Jesuit poster boy on the new pope
  • Mohler denounces papacy
  • Jazz in worship
  • Exhausted dads
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March 14, 2013

Resilience as grit, commitment and courage

The witness of Scripture and church history offers profound instances of faithful resilience.

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March 14, 2013

Thursday's News & Ideas

  • Running the papal numbers
  • Elephant in the Sistine Chapel
  • Pope retired. Should your pastor?
  • Lessons for picking a new leader
  • U.S. religion at a new low point
  • Reducing complexity to either/or
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March 13, 2013

Wednesday's News & Ideas

  • Clues from past conclaves
  • New Fuller Seminary president
  • Catholicism & culture
  • Studying the hereafter
  • Wanted: Transgenerational translators
  • Government by tradition
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March 12, 2013

Tuesday's News & Ideas

  • Benedict's master plan
  • What would Christ say?
  • Religion & wealth
  • Judaica for Christians
  • Carcano a leader on immigration
  • A lesson from Mariano
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March 11, 2013

Positive deviance and thriving communities

Why should you pay attention to the outliers in your organization who are thriving despite few resources? The story of a Vietnamese village shows why paying attention to positive deviants can create lasting change, even in seemingly impossible situations.

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March 11, 2013

Monday's News & Ideas

  • Where are you going?
  • Giving not keeping up
  • Homeschoolers embrace evolution
  • Home-brewed evangelism
  • Preachers' Daughters
  • Living with less
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March 8, 2013

Friday's News & Ideas

  • Marks of vibrant parishes
  • Most innovative pastor?
  • Pope irrelevant?
  • Cyrus Cylinder
  • SNAP's least worst candidates
  • Enough feisty princesses
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March 7, 2013

A good goodbye

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby left a legacy in the Diocese of Durham (UK) of congregants committed to change for the good of the community and the church.

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March 7, 2013

Thursday's News & Ideas

  • Nuns' lessons for the Vatican
  • Excommunicated priest in Cleveland
  • Unworldy Hutterites
  • Catholic disconnect
  • Clergy stress
  • Monkeys shun mean people
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March 6, 2013

Wednesday's News & Ideas

  • #1 institution: Local church
  • N.T. Wright on media hypocrisy
  • Divorce and children leaving church
  • TV getting religion?
  • Basketball, the path to salvation
  • Hungry children in America
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March 5, 2013

Tuesday's News & Ideas

  • Liberty Mega-University
  • CT editors reaffirm stance
  • Myth of anti-religion scientists
  • Christian Easter eggs
  • Clint Eastwood, a tipping point?
  • Dogs domesticated us
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March 5, 2013

The grace in how often Sunday comes around

We only get good at something when we practice it -- a lot. Are our organizations set up to encourage learning on the job?

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