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Baptist schools returning to gridiron
RALEIGH, N.C. (ABP) -- Money and men are the two main reasons several Baptist colleges are bringing football back to campus....
Acceptance grows for autistic kids in church
CALDWELL, N.J. (RNS) Halfway through a Mass in Caldwell College's campus
chapel, Chase Keith rose to his feet for one of the most challenging
parts of a challenging day....
Jews, evangelicals search for ways to discuss Israel
WASHINGTON (RNS) American Jews and evangelicals need a formal mechanism
to discuss their differences and similarities on support for Israel,...
Clothed with joy right down to her feet
Sometimes the news of the world can take the hope of Easter right out of you. Sometimes it's hard to believe in the resurrection....
Spectified, by Dave Specter
It's
fashionable for 21st-century blues guitarists to blow you away with
fretboard pyrotechnics. But Dave Specter harkens to the previous...
Spring for books
Martin Marty laments the moment when you realize you are not going to read all the books you hoped and planned to read—and you will have to depend on what others are saying about books you wi...
Plans for interfaith seminary shelved
(RNS) When leaders of the nation's oldest seminary and a Unitarian
Universalist theological school began to dream of building a new...
‘Circle of Protection’ fights budget cuts
Catholic, evangelical, mainline Protestant, black and Latino
Christian leaders have formed a "Circle of Protection" against U.S. cuts...
The rest of the Ryan budget
A series this week by Jonathan Cohn takes this point as its premise:...
The Mystery and the Hum, by Peter Himmelman
Peter
Himmelman's gifts for melody, lyrical poignancy and spiritual depth are
rare among singer-songwriters. He can also rock: "Motel Room in...
Books of consequence: Bookseller Warren Farha
"I wanted to open a bookstore that would contain the best of what had
been thought and written," says Warren Farha of Eighth Day Books. It's "an impossible goal, but that was the guiding
telos of the store."
One good sentence
Staring helplessly at a broken appliance or other household
malfunction, I often recall a quip by Joseph Epstein, an essayist and editor:
the only thing I can fix is a sentence. ...
Refreshed by Fire, by Shekinah Glory Ministry
Like
many modern gospel records, this double disc was recorded live. But it
begins nontraditionally: "Reclaim Your Mountain" builds tension by...
Take & read: Spring books
Our spring books issue includes the
following annotated lists of top new titles: Kathleen O'Connor on Old Testament, Amy Plantinga Pauw on theology and Brent Laytham on ethics.
Orthodox churches object to national identity cards
Moscow, April 26 (ENInews)--The Russian and Greek Orthodox churches are
objecting to plans in both countries to introduce electronic national...
Spotlight on abortion activist makes Catholics nervous
WASHINGTON (RNS) Anti-abortion activist Lila Rose has shared the stage
with Sarah Palin, seen her exploits extolled on Fox News and drawn...
THE GOD FACTOR (Should be) coming to a theater near you
(RNS) This fall a film based on Donald Miller's bestselling spiritual
memoir, "Blue Like Jazz," is expected to hit theaters nationwide. In...
Sunday, May 8, 2011: Acts 2:14a, 36-41; Luke 24:13-35
At times I will again be struck by the smallness of the thing, of this bit of bread and sip of wine.
U.S., Canadian Anglicans await royal wedding festivities
(RNS) An ocean away from the pomp and circumstance of Prince William and
Kate Middleton's nuptials on Friday, parishioners at Grace Anglican...
Methodists give $50,000 for massacre memorial
The United Methodist Church is making good on a pledge to support a
learning center at the western site of an 1864 massacre of Native
Americans led by a Methodist minister....