Let the wild rumpus start!
March 25, 2012
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Christopher Walken reads Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. Not our usual fare, but hey, it’s Christopher Walken reading Where the Wild Things Are.
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Welcoming doubters
March 25, 2012
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In my experience, the nones are not rejecting God. They are rejecting doctrinal requirements that they no longer find believable, along with the rigid structures of many organized religions. For that reason, the rise of the nones may well be a new kind of spiritual awakening, one in which doubters are welcome.
Queen of England drops in on wedding
March 25, 2012
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The Queen dropped in on a wedding at Manchester Town Hall, while touring the city as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Along with the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen met newlyweds John and Frances Canning who had booked the venue before the royal visit was announced.
The problem trap
March 25, 2012
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Sometimes just recognizing the dynamic of the problem-saturated story can release people from its mesmerizing effect and allow them to stand outside of it. Other times, taking on a different perspective allows the leader to recognize that the observer they have been offers only one of many perspectives.
Hunger for Meaning: or, the Transcendence Games
March 21, 2012
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A more giving blogger (definitely me), when presented with such material, would say you can look into such a book, a movie, and find the Christ you worship because the worship creates the consciousness of a set of themes that are simply prevalent in life and a narrative that is simply true – about love, resurrection, and life.
Theological and political carts and horses
March 18, 2012
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“Medieval theologians, by contrast, were interested in creating encyclopedic bodies of knowledge. The command to “have dominion,” in this context, became a command to accumulate facts about the natural world.”
Nigeria prays for anti-gay successor to Williams
March 18, 2012
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Unfortunately, [Williams] is leaving behind a Communion in tatters: highly polarized, bitterly factionalized, with issues of revisionist interpretation of the Holy Scriptures and human sexuality as stumbling blocks to oneness, evangelism and mission all around the Anglican world.
Where have all the women gone?
March 18, 2012
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Between 1991 and 2011 there has been a 20 percent decrease in the percentage of adult women attending church services in any given week, … The proportion of American women who are unchurched has nearly doubled in the past twenty years, rising by 94 percent. ~Barna research
More comments on ABC resignation and who’s next?
March 16, 2012
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UPDATE: 9:15 p.m. EDT – see below
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