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• Four Questions with Peggy Bendroth

  
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  Randall Stephens The historian Peggy Bedroth is the executive director of the Congregational Library in Boston, MA. Since her first book appeared 20 years ago, she has shaped the field of American religious history in profound ways.  Her insightful work on gender, childhood and family, and the cultures of ...
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• Asking the Boy Scout questions that matter the most

  
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  If you know anything about the politics of gay rights, you know that there is absolutely nothing that the Boy Scouts of American can do right now that will not lead to major divisions in their organization. The key force that will cause a future split is, of course, the deep divide among mainstream religious [...]
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• It’s True about Money and Happiness

  
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  Fear of the Unknown I once stood behind a large family in line at a currency exchange booth in the South Pacific.  I leaned in and realized that I couldn’t understand a word they were saying and thus began my worry that I would not be able to communicate with those who worked behind the thick glass that kept  us ...
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• The other reason people are ignoring Jason Collinss faith

  
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  I keep seeing  T. F. Charltons Jason Collins post  everywhere, and with good reason: Tim Tebow is an example of how the public face of Christian athletes, like the public face of American Christianity in general, is overwhelmingly white—despite the fact that  black Americans  are the racial demographic most ...
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• So, what do Southern Baptists have to do to get some ink?

  
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  A couple of years ago the Southern Baptist Convention explored the option of changing their name to better reflect the national and international nature of the denomination. I thought at the time that it might be helpful to change the name to the “The Episcopal Church” so that the national news media would finally ...
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• Speaking of Evangelism…

  
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  [Jesus said] “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”   John 13:34-35 Many folks who belong to mainline churches have the same concerns when ...
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• The Church as Blueberry Pancake

  
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  It was either Rocky Supinger or Greg Bolt that turned me on to marketing guru Seth Godin . I subscribed to his blog and read it with interest. I often find in his posts compelling connections or challenges for the church. I’ve considered writing posts that tease out these connections, so here’s a first ...
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• The Thing With Labels

  
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  On this week’s TNT I proposed that labels can be good and helpful. They don’t need to be divisive or negative.  Now some people want to eschew labels all together. I get why they might want to do that but I find that not only a daunting task but a nearly impossible way to proceed through society and culture. ...
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• Linux Kernel 3.9 on Ubuntu

  
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  The Linux kernel 3.9 was released on on Monday, April 29, 2013 by Linus and currently I’m running the new kernel on my Ubuntu 13.04 machine but you can do this on any Ubuntu version. This article will describe how you can compile the mainline kernel from the official kernel.org git repository in a Ubuntu [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Renewing (Mainline) Congregations – Again

  
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  I want to call attention to a post I read this morning, Can a Dying Church Find Life? Six Radical Steps to “Yes” (HT: Allan Bevere ). Then I want to call attention again to a series of responses to a set of interview questions given by some Energion Publications authors on renewing mainline congregations . ...
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• Sacred Conversations

  
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  There was a time, not so long ago, when confirmation within mainline Protestant churches was a primarily dogmatic exercise. Students were expected to memorize and recite creeds and catechisms. These catechisms defined faith by asking questions and providing answers, answers that are scripted and learned by catechumens ...
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• Womenpriests again: The people vs. paper scenario

  
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  Anyone who has ever worked on the religion beat knows the drill. You are writing a story about a controversial topic, a topic that people in the establishment of a religious body are not anxious to talk about. The rebels, on the left or the right, are anxious to tell their story.They will talk your [...]
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• One-track minds

  
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  A really short history of one privatised railway route. East Coast Mainline. First it was privatised. Taxpayers gave the franchisee billions in subsidy and through upgrading the infrastructure. Then the operator failed to make their insane financial model work and walked away: the state took it over again, in ...
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• Denomination update and why numbers matter

  
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  As many of you know, I belong to a Presbyterian Church (USA) congregation. Moreover, I am in the ordination track for the Presbytery of Charlotte. And if that were not enough, I attend a PCUSA seminary , and I work at the seminary. Needless to say, I have an invested interest in the controversies plaguing the ...
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• Is Ephesians 6 really about Thatcher’s strength?

  
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  Whenever my Washington Journalism Center students start covering speeches and major public events, always I tell them that they face three major journalistic challenges. They have to: (1) Get the words down, whether in professional quality notes, on a recording or, ideally, both. (2) Understand the words, by which I ...
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• Being Productive Without Being in a Hurry

  
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  I Waive Your Wave Twenty years ago, while working for a children’s dentist, I carefully mixed cement for a temporary crown on a baby tooth.  My boss -  the dentist  - waved his free hand frantically, in an effort to get me to hurry.   Many things would cause my dentist to want me to hurry:  behavioral ...
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