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Awards and a nomination
We're very pleased that indie-press digest Utne Reader nominated the Century for a 2011 Utne Independent Press Award
in the "body/spirit" category.
The Daily Show's limits
"Open conversation that leads to nothing." That's how Jon Stewart summed up his interview with popular right-wing historian David Barton. He was right: After 30 minutes of glib back-and-forth with Barton (ten of which made it onto TV), Stewart was flummoxed, worn down, unfunny.
Growing youth
The most hopeful message in Greenhouses of Hope is
implicit: your church doesn't have to be large, suburban, white or
wealthy--or even to have an established youth program--in order for
ministry with young people to flourish.
Episcopal future: Is Anglican reconciliation possible?
The Episcopal Church is in the position of striving to be both fully inclusive at home and a
fully accountable part of the Anglican Communion. Can this seeming
paradox be resolved?
Japan's churches urged to work together after "triple disaster"
Seoul, South Korea, May 9 (ENInews)--Japan's churches and Christian councils should establish a consortium to respond to the devastating 11 March earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power plant acciden...
Muslims hope bias ends with bin Laden's death
PATERSON, N.J. (RNS) Hours after Osama bin Laden's death was announced,
the American Arab Forum received a phone call. The person on the line...
Jewish newspaper erases Clinton from photo
(RNS) An ultra-Orthodox Jewish newspaper in Brooklyn deleted Secretary
of State Hillary Rodham Clinton from a White House photograph of top...
Jesuit to become chaplain of the House
(RNS) A Jesuit will be sworn in as the 60th chaplain of the House of
Representatives on May 25, when he will become the first member of his...
After seminary, `Lost Boy' headed back to Sudan
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (RNS) It has been more than two decades since Deng
Alier fled war in his homeland. Now, armed with a master's degree in...
A verse that puts the brakes on
It's only in the last few years that I've felt free to resist a biblical text, free to accept that such resistance is "allowed." It still isn't something that comes easily for me, given my particul...
Consumers or producers
My husband, a musician, likes to talk about different ways people love
music. Most people love music of some sort or another, but they love it...
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, by Alan Jacobs
If you're like me, you have a list of books in your head or on scraps of paper that you think you should read sometime....
Charges dropped against anti-Obama protesters
(RNS) An Indiana prosecutor on Thursday (May 5) dropped trespassing
charges against nearly 80 anti-abortion activists who protested...
Study: 2 in 10 atheist scientists are `spiritual'
(RNS) More than 20 percent of atheist scientists consider themselves to
be "spiritual," according to a Rice University study....
Scholars chase Bible's changes, one verse at a time
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Working in a cluster of offices above a LifeWay
Christian Bookstore, Bible scholars are buried in a 20-year project to...
In praise of imbalance: The holy rhythms of life
Who really wants to lead a balanced life? The times I've been
happiest—when I was raising young children or consumed with a project—my
life has been decidedly out of balance.
Fragile democracy
In 1831-32 two
young Frenchmen, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont, traveled
through the United States, ostensibly to study the prison system on behalf of...