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New study on abortion reduction

September 7, 2008 No Comments

Joseph Wright (Penn State University) and Michael Bailey’s (Georgetown University) examined the dramatic drop in abortions in the 1990s. The results are significant. States that spend more generously on nutritional supplement programs, for example, could see up to 37 percent lower abortion rates. Other factors such as cutting welfare more slowly and higher male employment rates had a 20 to 29 percent reduction rate.

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The gift of fragmentation

September 7, 2008 No Comments

The image of division haunts the church. It is the image of the eucharistic sacrament. Yet the church resists. The ideal community, according to the prevailing definition, is a group of like-minded people representing organic and institutional unity.

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Religious liabilities on the Republican ticket

September 6, 2008 3 Comments

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

September 6, 2008 No Comments

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

September 6, 2008 No Comments

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?

September 6, 2008 3 Comments

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

September 6, 2008 No Comments

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

September 6, 2008 No Comments

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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