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"Grace and Truth"

Jan 27, 2012 by James Calvin Schaap

Confession time. Once, years ago, when I was a college student home for a break, my mother, who taught piano for most of her life, declared that she would bestow upon her son a 10-dollar bill if he would only sit down at the piano in the den and pound out a hymn, any hymn at all.

Politicizing Gabby Giffords

Jan 26, 2012 by Debra Dean Murphy

By all accounts Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is a remarkable woman: A respected, conciliatory colleague in the contentious House of Representatives long before the tragic shooting in Tucson; a hardworking politician deeply committed to the concerns of her constituents (which is why she was in a suburban parking lot that fateful Saturday morning); a supportive spouse

Is clergy burnout really a crisis?

Jan 24, 2012 by Rachel Hackenberg

Is the crisis whether we burn out, or how we burn out?

Ecclesiastical orphans

Jan 19, 2012 by R. Wayne Stacy

Preaching guru Fred Craddock, retired from Emory's Candler School of Theology, often quips: "Anyone who can't remember any farther back than his or her own birth is an orphan."

The lens of dementia

Jan 17, 2012 by Dora Dueck

The movie The Iron Lady--about Margaret Thatcher, prime minister of Britain from 1979 to 1990--is worth watching for a number of reasons. One is the opportunity to refresh our minds about a major figure of recent history and her influence upon those times. Another is to watch Meryl Streep’s performance in the role.

Haiti: Two years after the quake

Jan 12, 2012 by Scott Gunn

Tomorrow is the two-year anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. In today’s 24-hour news cycle driven world, two years ago is practically medieval. While most of us sail along merrily, as if nothing ever happened, Haiti continues to be a humanitarian disaster.

Secular sabbath vs. Christian traditions

Jan 11, 2012 by Adam J. Copeland

Do today's main advocates of sabbath (or “quiet,” “rest,” “time away,” whatever you call it) approach it from a spiritual-but-not-religious perspective?

When something is missing

Jan 06, 2012 by Scott Gunn

The Lens at the New York Times has a fascinating collection of images entitled “Iconic Scenes, Revisited and Reimagined.” Here are famous photos, but without the thing that made them famous.

What are supply clergy?

Jan 05, 2012 by Steve Woolley

What are supply clergy? Are they merely ordained persons who are authorized to use the costume, magic words and hand motions needed to legitimize  an hour of worship while the life of the congregation goes along without them quite well, thank you very much?

If you can't have the Bible you'd love, love the Bible you have

Jan 03, 2012 by James F. McGrath

I probably shouldn’t tamper with the wording of a song for the title of this post. Cee Lo Green has sparked a lot of controversy with his New Year’s Eve rendition of John Lennon’s “Imagine,” in which he changed “no religion, too” to “all religion’s true.”