Day: December 1, 2007

Growing in faith

Manya Brachear of The Chicago Tribune has written a story that should be read by everyone who thinks about church growth, whether in numerical or

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Every word is true?

Mark Silva of The Baltimore Sun writes: For a presidential contest in which religion – and indeed the religious faith of at least one candidate – will play a certain role in the choices which many voters make, two questions loom large here: Is every word in the Bible true, and “what would Jesus do’’ about capital punishment.

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The Year in God

2007 may be recorded as a pivotal year for religion and politics — relatively quiet, unremarkable at first glance, but nonetheless significant as a harbinger of things to come. “There are a lot of discrete things, but if you put them all together, you get the sense that change is in the air,” said John Green, a senior fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

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The “Compass” and the Catholic League

The Catholic League is calling for a boycott of the film The Golden Compass, based on the first book in Phillip Pullman’s brilliant “His Dark Materials” trilogy, and Mark Mordford of the San Francisco Chronicle thinks he knows why.

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The limits of our knowledge

A tad over a century ago, the great British scientist Lord Kelvin made some very hasty prophecies. In the 1890’s, Kelvin said variously that “radio has no future” and “heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” In his most famous line, he told fellow scientists in 1900 that there remain only “a couple of small clouds” obscuring our understanding of the physical universe.

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Born again

Advent offers all of us a chance to be born again. We might well ask with Nicodemus, “How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother’s womb and be born?”

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