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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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• The Boundaries of Evangelicalism

  
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  As I survey the contemporary church, one of my gravest concerns is the power and prevalence of mysticism. It appears in pulpits, books, and conversation. It is at the heart of Sarah Young’s bestselling Jesus Calling , it is in all the much-loved books by John Eldredge, it fills the pages of so many books on ...
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• People of the Swamps Fight the Flooding

  
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  This April, the region of Paliessie in southern Belarus experienced annual flood caused by major local rivers. The flood was the largest in decades. Yet Paliessie is famous not only for floods that turn towns and villages into islands. The region’s population presents a distinct ethnic group within the Belarusian ...
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• Speed Round, Featuring Mark Driscoll and Ed Young

  
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  This afternoon we present the latest Ministry Briefing Speed Round, featuring stories focused on Ed Young and Mark Driscoll: Mark Driscoll surprises everyone by making environmentally insensitive comments , and suggests that men who drive minivans are mini-men. Ed Young hosts  “Dog Days Weekend,” which ...
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• A Map Of Religion In North America

  
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  The below map shows the religious affiliations (on average) of counties in the U.S. and Canada. The red scale is Catholic, the blue scale Protestant, the green scale No Religion, the yellow scale Mormon, and the Orthodox scale purple. Unsurprisingly, most of the nation (who identifies with a religion) is of the ...
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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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• Best Commentaries on Romans

  
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  Series Introduction: I live in a small house. I work in a small office in a small church. For those reasons and others I will never have a huge library. When I add a book I almost always remove a book, a practice that allows me to focus on quality over quantity. Over the past couple of years I have focused on building ...
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• Scripture, Tradition and Reformation

  
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  Recently, Mika and I attended a meeting of gay and lesbian Catholics. Several people of all ages were in attendance. We had a very interesting discussion and it was very nice meeting these people. Among those present was a young gay man, Jesse, who has faith in Christ and the Roman Catholic Church. Jesse, like [...]
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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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• Things should be what they are

  
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  What should we, as conservatives, be trying to preserve and trying to pass down to our children? Many things, obviously. One thing that gets, to my mind, to the heart of what we should be trying to teach is a love of the genuine as opposed to the fake. Our culture wallows in the fake. Everything has to be new, ...
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• Apr 24 – Homily – Fr Dominic: St. Fidelis and the True Vine

  
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  Homily #130424 ( 06min) Play - Fr. Dominic preaches about St Fidelis, a Capuchin friar who left a promising career as a lawyer to enter the friary. He prayed daily for the gift of martyrdom. Later, he was sent to Switzerland to preach against the Protestant heresies and obtained that desire when a group of ...
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• You are not blessed with stress

  
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  Or why I might not remember your name Stress is not a blessing Something we’ve inherited from our Protestant ancestors is an anachronistic attachment to labor, stress, and a propensity to die early. Probably from a heart attack. Last I looked, there are only nine Beatitudes . I wouldn’t be surprised if some ...
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• C.S. Lewis, John Calvin and Christian Joy

  
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  C.S. Lewis, John Calvin and Christian Joy C.S. Lewis We’ve been dipping into CS Lewis ’s wonderful work, English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama) and have discovered some fascinating insights on the Protestant believers of the 16 th Century and the Puritans that followed them in ...
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• A La Carte (5/18)

  
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  Screen Preaching - Christopher Ash writes about why he objects to preachers who speak to their congregations by way of a screen. “There are bad reasons for not liking video preaching, and thus it cannot be absolutely wrong. … But I think there are two kinds of reasons why remoteness ought to be regarded as the ...
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• New & Notable Books

  
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  I am in the unique and enjoyable position of receiving copies of most of the latest and greatest Christian books and I like to provide regular roundups of some of the best and brightest of the bunch. Of all the books I have received recently, here are the ones that appear most noteworthy. Rhythms of Grace by ...
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• God as Therapist?

  
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  Tanya Luhrmann wrote When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship With God. She has a column in today’s NYT, “When God is Your Therapist.” IT had never occurred to me to think of God as a therapist when I began to spend time, 10 years ago, at an evangelical church in ...
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• Hymn Stories: Rock of Ages

  
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  Augustus Toplady was born in England in 1740. His father was a Royal Marine and died on duty soon after his son’s birth, leaving the boy to be raised by his mother. Toplady had an interest in religion during his younger years, and showed this in spiritual journals and moralistic behavior. However, it wasn’t until ...
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• Machistas and Christ

  
  Leon J. Podles :: DIALOGUE — Authority: 110
  Latino men have the reputation for being detached from the church, and too many of them are caught up in destructive macho and gangster cultures. Both Catholics and evangélicos (conservative Protestants, fundamentalist/Pentecostal) try to reach them; I have wondered who has the better success. John ...
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• CS Lewis on Predestination

  
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  English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama by CS Lewis   CS Lewis does not take a hostile view of predestination. He merely refuses to engage with what he calls its ‘darker’ side, and is skeptical of those who assert it apparently without feeling. As you’ll see at the end of this post, he ...
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• The Really Big List of Kindle Deals

  
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  Now that the 2013 Gospel Coalition Conference has come and gone, a lot of publishers have released some amazing deals on Kindle books related to the event. I’ve rounded them up, added a bunch of other great deals, and made it all into one really big list. I’ve even tried to categorize the books for you. Enjoy! ...
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