Day: September 6, 2008

Religious liabilities on the Republican ticket

Earlier this year, the newswires ran amok with report after report that McCain was no longer an Episcopalian, but a Baptist. But that splits more hairs than some are comfortable with. In the meantime, Palin is so closely tied with Pentecostalism that some question how nondenominationally evangelical she is.

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What we need is a good fast

Riazat Butt, religion correspondent for the Guardian, wrote a column for the Church Times, reprinted today at Thinking Anglicans, in which she requests that people honor her Ramadan-season request with “by refraining from publishing stories about gay bishops during the hours of sunrise and sunset.”

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Organists’ guild focuses on staying relevant

Eileen Guenther, the newest president of the American Guild of Organists, gets spotlighted in a Religion News Service interview this week. Facing declining membership, Guenther explains that organs haven’t so much been replaced as the instrument of choice in churches as they have been supplemented by other instruments. The result is a new landscape for church musicians, one that she hopes the guild can help them face.

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What is emergent?

I’ve sat in on the occasional “what is emergent” conversation at various events, and it’s interesting to note that even Publisher’s Weekly is stymied by the term. Marcia Ford, writing in this week’s issue, points to the confusion that the term engenders for publishers and booksellers as much as it does for readers interested in learning more about emerging church, emergent theology and Emergent Village—three terms that are used interchangeably as “emergent.”

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The name game

Astute readers will notice that your Saturday editor is writing under another name, one which will be familiar to those who know me through Facebook. The name change I’ve been alluding to for months is now official.

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Signed with the cross

What does it mean to bear the cross? The phrase may refer to the practice of actually marking people with the cross. This ancient practice of marking people on the forehead was well known. The prophet Ezekiel put a mark on the foreheads of those who groaned and sighed for the abominations committed in Jerusalem before the slaughter of the idolaters (Ezekiel 9:4),

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