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Opening to God, Life with God, Lectio Matters and Lectio Divina
A member of an adult education course that I taught on the book of Acts showed up one Sunday morning with his own maps and charts, a CD by an evangelical preacher whose credentials seemed suspect, ...
Clinton defends religious freedom envoy
WASHINGTON (RNS) Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended her
new ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom on Thursday...
Muslims contribute to German society, church gathering told
Dresden, Germany, June 3 (ENInews)--Islam is part of a modern, changing
Germany and necessary to develop a vibrant society, President Christian Wulff...
MacArthur encouraged religion in postwar Japan
A new book on postwar Japan says Gen. Douglas MacArthur sought to
fill the country's "spiritual vacuum" with religious and quasi-religious...
Eternal life
"And this is eternal life, to know the Father and his only Son Jesus Christ."...
Another Twitter frenzy
I don't know whether Rep. Anthony Weiner sent a lewd photo
of himself to a college student via Twitter. The evidence is mixed: on the one...
Year of Plenty, by Craig L. Goodwin
Presbyterian minister Craig Goodwin's odyssey into local food began with a postholiday argument with his wife about who was more to blame for their rushed, packed and disappointing Christ...
Faith of the founders
John Fea
brings humility, patience and objectivity to controversial questions of religion and the founding era of
American history. His book is a model of scholarly restraint.
Unreliable memories
Leonard (Guy Pierce) is running, but he can't remember if is he being chased or if he is the chaser....
C. S. Lewis’s Aeneid
For C.S. Lewis, Virgil prepared the way for all subsequent Christian epics by changing the subject from the adolescent theme
of heroism to the adult theme of vocation.
Religious leaders call a strike on tobacco
(RNS) Religious leaders are hoping to hit a home run in a campaign to
get Major League Baseball players to ban tobacco use on fields and
dugouts of the national pastime....
The anti-gospel of Ayn Rand
The atheist philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand published more than a
dozen books before she died in 1982. Now some liberal Christians say...
German ex-bishop says praying with Taliban beats bombing
A former leader of Germany's Protestant community, Margot Kässmann,
says she believes that a suggestion to pray with the Taliban by...
Losing trust
My sister Marie was reading the weekly e-mail update from
her daughter's kindergarten teacher. Amid reminders about library day and an...
The Long Goodbye, by Meghan O’Rourke
The Long Goodbye is poet Meghan O'Rourke's account of her mother's colorectal cancer and the year of mourning that followed her death....
Staying together
For Jesus, unity among his disciples is an instrument of the evangel itself. Presbyterians have a great evangelical opportunity to show a fractured world that it is possible for people to disagree and yet remain in fellowship.
Incendies: Directed by Denis Villeneuve
Incendies is a
disturbing layover at the crossroads of forgiveness and revenge. It's a
challenging film on several levels. Not only is there a hearty helping
of violence to be digested over the film's 130 minutes, but audiences
must also wrestle with a complex narrative structure.
Gingrich woos skeptical evangelical voters
WASHINGTON (RNS) As evangelicals and other social conservatives gather
here this weekend (June 3-4) to take the measure of a number of...