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Practice, practice, practice
My first piano teacher, Mr. Jackson, was the best. I didn't like him.
Other people saying things
"In practical coalitional politics, the 'center' will tend to be shaped not by rational thinking but by money and power. If t...
Post-traumatic texts
David Carr rereads the familiar materials of the Bible in conversation with trauma theory. This opens the way for a fresh and suggestive interpretation.
Amelia Boynton Robinson, "matriarch of the Voting Rights Act," dies at 104
(The Christian Science Monitor) Amelia Boynton Robinson, a pivotal figure in the struggle for civil rights in Selma, Alabama—and whose...
New Nuns on the Bus tour to highlight Pope Francis U.S. visit and agenda
c. 2015 Religion News Service
(RNS) Pope Francis is set to arrive in Washington on September 22 by plane. The nuns are coming on a bus....
Square in Rome named after Martin Luther
The Vatican has given its backing to naming a central Rome square after Martin Luther....
Southern Baptist missions to lay off up to 800 people
The Southern Baptist Convention will cut as many as 800 employees from its overseas missions agency to make up for significant shortfalls in revenue, officials announced August 27....
Jonathan Myrick Daniels remembered with 50th anniversary pilgrimage, memorial at Washington National Cathedral
Jonathan Myrick Daniels was 26 when he stepped in front of a shotgun blast meant for a fellow civil rights worker, Ruby Sales, 50 years ago in Hayneville, Alabama....
Germany’s classrooms make a place for Islam
(The Christian Science Monitor) Timur Kumlu had just read the second-graders a chapter from the Qur’an about Abraham looking for Allah...
Gary Hall, dean of the Washington National Cathedral, to retire early; bishop Mariann Budde to serve as interim
Gary Hall, dean of the Washington National Cathedral, announced in late August that he would be retiring from his position two years early....
Witnesses in the cloud
Critics view genealogy as a kind of ersatz historiography, an individualistic reconstruction of the past. But there is more to family tree building.
Overcoming the culture of nice
We have a culture of nice that allows bullies to flourish. I have watched as this culture allowed certain people to take over a church. Then the group placates that person, and even asks the person who stands up to the bully to sit down, in order to maintain peace. This dynamic can and does kill churches.
Pastors: help your people see money in the light of faith
Do you wish you could help people make the faith connection with their money?...
Muslim elected president of student wing of prominent pro-Israel group
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Catholics love their celebrity pope and most—not all—his priorities
c. 2015 Religion News Service
(RNS) Americans are gung-ho for Pope Francis’ U.S. visit—if they know he’s coming....
Restored pilgrim paths
Over the last generation, the institution of pilgrimage has experienced a startling revival across what we often dismiss as secular Europe.