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Anglican female bishop unanimous pick in India
A Christian nun who became the first woman bishop of South Asia’s Anglican community said that so far her appointment has silenced critics who believe only men can play leadership roles in the chur...
On interring 300 persons known to God alone
Recently I helped inter the remains of almost 300 persons who had been lingering, unclaimed, on storage closet shelves in the county coroner’s office. Some of them had been there since the 1940s....
This just in: A guy changed his mind about Obamacare
Butch Matthews has changed his mind about Obamacare....
Thursday digest
New today from the Century: Amy Frykholm reviews Najla Said; Obamacare and being open to changing your mind; more.
Global Christianity & American religious history
To the Ends of the Earth: Pentecostalism and the Transformation of World Christianity, by Allan Heaton Anderson....
Progressive faith on the FM dial?
Driving in northern Indiana one recent evening, I came to the conclusion that religious broadcasters pretty much own the FM band in this part of the country. One station was playing contemporary Christian music, another gospel music. And three different stations were airing James Dobson’s radio program. Dobson, formerly of Focus on the Family, was touting a new novel he has coauthored, which fictionalizes all the bad things supposedly resulting from a decline in the American birthrate.
Wednesday digest
New today from the Century: Kathryn Reklis on Orange Is the New Black, Timothy Renick reviews Andrew Bacevich, more.
Religious studies 50 years after the Schempp decision
Recently, Secretary of State John Kerry explained that if he could do it all over again, he would major in “comparative religion.” Were it not for a Supreme Court decision 50 years ago, this might not have even been possible.
New Testament
Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition, by Gary A. Anderson....
Stories from inside
Orange Is the New Black is so refreshing, honest and funny that "prison drama" is hardly the right category.
Breach of Trust, by Andrew J. Bacevich
Every year, hundreds of thousands of freshly minted high school graduates enter college across the United States....
Sunday, October 13, 2013: 2 Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c
Back in the mid-1990s I wrote a book on sin. Each of us knows sin experientially, of course, but few of us know it comprehensively even in that way because we are parochial even in our sinning....
Minister-turned-atheist Teresa MacBain loses Harvard job after inflating resume
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Questions without answers
Every Wednesday morning, our congregation holds a small Matins service in our small chapel. We pray, we sing, we hear the scriptures. There is a short homily....
Eight things the chaos on Capitol Hill isn't about
Federal programs have ground to a halt, and workers have been sent home. The debt ceiling looms. And it's all somehow related to Obamacare.
Tuesday digest
New today from the Century: Faith formation and answerless questions, eight things the chaos on Capitol Hill isn't about, more.
The Historical David, by Joel Baden
The public has a taste for biographies of great people who on closer inspection turn out to be not so great after all....
Praying for Syria
I'm on the fence about military action in Syria. So I do what those of us on the fence ought to be doing: I pray.