Year: 2007

Grace: for girls

Grace, a new magazine for eleven to sixteen year old girls, is a mix of real-life stories, problem pages, campaigns, eco and ethical lifestyle tips, music, film and book reviews – with references to Christianity scattered throughout.

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Monogamy, the game

After years as a relationship therapist and a partner in my own marriage, I knew couples wouldn’t win based on what they’ve accomplished prior to their wedding day. Instead, like a shoe or thimble hopping around a board acquiring houses during a game of Monopoly, the idea would be to earn points over a lifetime in a relationship. I figured we’d call this game – what else? — Monogamy.

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More on the faiths of the founding fathers

Regardless of where they fell on the Deist spectrum, many Deists continued to respect the moral teachings of Jesus without believing in his divine status. But the tendency of Deism was to emphasize ethical endeavors—hence the concern of most Deists for social justice and their profound opposition to all forms of tyranny.

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Casting the net on the net

The Church’s presence on the internet is varied and growing. Church-on-the-net is a new internet church site that targets people who not in the Church

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The politics of moral purpose

Gordon Brown is the third Prime Minister in a row in Great Britain to “do God.” The son of a Church of Scotland minister, he says he will bring “competence and serious moral purpose” to government.

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God did it, but, honest, he didn’t mean it.

Some evangelical bishops in the Church of England say that floods there are God’s judgment. One said that the floods are the result of our lack of respect for the planet, and also are a judgment on society’s moral decadence.

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Holy action, holy space

What I most regret about Episcopal worship is a formalized, numbed aesthetic and an Anglophile caricature of Gothic revival. It’s a too-settled, status-quo feeling in liturgy that carries smugness: we say people have to “learn to appreciate it.” It’s sectarian and arrogant, it doesn’t touch people’s lives, and it’s why our Anglophile churches in America are relics.

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