Tag: Popular culture

Sex, meaning, consequences

Come Sunday, and one’s thoughts turn to sex, at least if one has been reading The New York Times. “Lately,” writes Randy Kennedy, “it seems that a slight virginal breeze has been blowing through the worlds of publishing, theater and Hollywood.”

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Criticizing Conspicuous Clerical Consumption

When Hollingsworth was elected an Episcopal bishop in 2003, he, his wife and four children were offered housing by the diocese. Hollingsworth chose instead to buy a $1.66 million home with seven bedrooms, seven full and two partial bathrooms and five fireplaces across from a park in Shaker Heights, Ohio. The bishop bought the house with what he would only describe as his “personal resources.”

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Belief or Evolution?

There’s been a number of articles in the media this week talking about the apparent dichotomy between holding to the Christian faith and a scientific

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Sex & Religion & Teenagers

Mark Regnerus’ new book, entitled “Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers” is a sociological study of the ways that personal faith influences young people’s choices regarding their choices to be sexually active or not.

There’s good news and bad news in the report.

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Hatin’ on Harry

St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church in Bethesda, Md., is offering a vacation Bible School with a Harry Potter theme. Last night a banner advertising the camp

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Don’t just do something

In a twenty minute drive the other day I heard at least three advertisements that claimed to offer people rest, for a price.

America doesn’t need any more things to keep them awake. What we really need is something to help us sleep better. Buy a mattress.

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Show me the way

Stan Sheldon played on the 1976 iconic “Frampton Comes Alive!” So why would he spend his Sunday mornings playing for about three dozen people at a contemporary service at St. Margaret’s in Lawrence? Melodie Woerman of the Diocese of Kansas knows.

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