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Category: The Lead

My “discipleship” problem

January 6, 2014 6 Comments

A small confession: I am not sure what the word discipleship means. It is a word used frequently by people whom I know and respect,

Do we need to rethink Sunday morning?

January 6, 2014 19 Comments

Do liturgical churches need to rethink their approach to Sunday morning worship? I’m asking this question in part because of an essay by Lutheran pastor

Fighting human trafficking at the Super Bowl and beyond

January 5, 2014 No Comments

The NFL playoffs, particularly the two weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, are high season for human trafficking. But trafficking is a year round

Life and death and Jahi McMath

January 5, 2014 6 Comments

Writing at Religion News Service

Making those who are invisible visible

January 5, 2014 No Comments

Artist Ramiro Gomez takes images of the good life, and then sketches in the invisible domestic workers who make the good life possible. Recently he

Raising children with gratitude

January 4, 2014 1 Comment

New studies show that gratitude has positive effects on children and teens (proving your mother was correct about writing those thank you notes). The

“The church service alone probably won’t convert anyone”

January 4, 2014 4 Comments

The Rev. Gary Manning called my attention to an essay by Sarah Wilson on Lutheran Forum. It is about attending church in a strange congregation.

Swearing on a Bible app?

January 4, 2014 1 Comment

Nassau Executive Mangano was sworn in to office using an iPad Bible app according to

A Calvinist revival?

January 3, 2014 1 Comment

Mark Oppenheimer writes that evangelicals are in the midst of a Calvinist revival.

Contraception challenge: “Little Sisters” have no case

January 3, 2014 4 Comments

Even the lawyer for one of the groups, the Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged, admits that this lawsuit is about trying to weasel out of nothing more onerous than signing a piece of paper [certifying the exemption].