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Religious discussion in an age of incivility

August 16, 2008 No Comments

Andrew Brown posits that much of the acrimony in religious debate today is the result of people not taking online discourse seriously, and adds that the current schism may in fact be the result of how the Internet allows people to voice their opinions without the same filter that one generally applies to their face-to-face communications. Additionally, the same online tools that allow us to connect and see things we have in common also allow us to see what we have in opposition that we might not otherwise know.

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Don’t You Forget About …

August 16, 2008 1 Comment

’80s nostalgia is everywhere these days, but one American Baptist preacher has taken it to another level. Tripp Hudgins, the 37-year-old pastor of the Community Church of Wilmette near Chicago, was looking for a way to help boost summer attendance. So he created a sermon series in which he discusses about the spiritual themes that are woven into the films of John Hughes.

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The next Billy Graham

August 16, 2008 1 Comment

Both men have proved to be geniuses at adapting religion to their times. Mr Graham took the barbed-wire fundamentalism of his youth and reshaped it for the post-war era of two-car garages and upward mobility. Mr Warren took post-war evangelicalism and reshaped it, yet again, for the world of suburban anomie and the search for meaning. This required entrepreneurial skills of a high order.

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Mere Christianity redux?

August 15, 2008 No Comments

Back in the middle of the twentieth century a thin book was published by C.S. Lewis entitled Mere Christianity. The book was an attempt to

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Lambeth ’08 in retrospect

August 15, 2008 No Comments

The lead editorial in the Church Times today provides an excellent overview of what happened at the most recent Lambeth Conference and some context in which to view it.

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Obama “the most pro-life candidate”?

August 15, 2008 No Comments

Joel Hunter, a major voice in the evangelical movement in the United States has agreed to offer up the closing prayer at the Democratic convention. He’s doing this, in part because, in his mind, Obama is the most pro-life candidate running for president this year.

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Demographic shifts a’ coming

August 15, 2008 3 Comments

According to projections released yesterday by the US Census bureau, the racial makeup and age distribution of America’s population is about to undergo some important

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