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'Angry Conversations With God': A Snarky, Sweet, New Spiritual Memoir

Date: 03/12/2009

Spiritual memoirs were once a hot commodity in the Christian book market with reflective but accessible reads like Lauren Winner's "Girl Meets God" and Donald Miller's " Blue Like Jazz" finding a wide audience. Of late, most inspirational memoirs seem to me to have ranged from only mildly uplifting to really self-indulgent. Which is why I was intrigued when I heard about actress and comedien ...

Related Topics: Angry Conversations With God, Books, Susan E. Isaacs

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Top 3 Books for Lent

Date: 02/27/2009

Every year, in addition to searching for books to help me reflect on Advent, I also look for thoughtful books to read during Lent.  I hunted on Amazon.com and stumbled upon some worthy new selections to add to my collection. Here are three choices that will inspire and help you focus on the meaning of this season. Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and ...

Related Topics: Books, Bread And Wine, Lauren Winner, Lent, N.T. Wright, The Voice

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There's No Sex Ed in Seminary

Date: 01/08/2009

So says a report released today. Seminarians might be having it, but they aren't talking about it. The Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing surveyed 36 seminaries and rabbinical schools, and found that ministers-to-be are woefully under-prepared for dealing with one of the most central issues in their congregants' lives:  More than 90% of the seminaries surveye ...

Related Topics: Aaron Stern, Alexandra Pelosi, Donna Freitas, Lauren Winner, New Life Church, Seminary, Sex, Ted Haggard

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Do Ed Young's sex sermons speak to singles?

Date: 11/25/2008

The most emailed article at the New York Times right now is about Ed Young of Fellowship Church in Texas and his much-discussed sermon series on sex . As part of the series, he challenged all the married couples in his church to have sex each day for seven days.  I have lots of questions here, but I'll restrict myself to just one: How do singles figure into Young's sex sermon series? In ever ...

Related Topics: Sex, Christianity, Singles, Sexuality, Fellowship Church, Ed Young, Ed Young Challenge, Lauren Winner, Real Sex, Singleness

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Weekly Meanderings

Date: 09/27/2008

The City of Chicago... ... home of the Cubs! Pray for Molly, Steve and family . I laughed aloud about this BP Switch Cover . Yes, I had to buy one. And doesn't this get silly after awhile ? Roland Martin thinks it's more than silly. Michael Krahn posts some clipped comments by Brian McLaren about the meaning of the gospel. In a week that I began a series on "gospel," I th ...

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Domestic Violence & Lambeth

Date: 07/31/2008

Catherine Roskam, Suffragan Bishop from New York, spoke at Lambeth about domestic violence: she rightly noted that domestic violence appears in all religious communities...she then went on to say that likely there were domestic abusers among the hundreds of male bishops gathered at Lambeth: "We have 700 men here. "Do you think any of them beat their wives? Chances are they do. The most devout ...

Related Topics: Casting Stones, Lambeth, Catherine Roskam

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Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks on Lambeth

Date: 07/30/2008

According to this report , Sir Jonathan Sacks, British chief rabbi , spoke at Lambeth earlier this week about the need to find unity within difference: The Anglican Communion has held together quite different strands of Christian theology and practice better than any other religion I know, certainly than any other Western religion I know....Covenant is predicated on difference...Between God a ...

Related Topics: Casting Stones, Lambeth, Jonathan Sacks

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New Pastoral Forum in Anglican Communion

Date: 07/28/2008

The Windsor Continuation Group has released a document calling for, according to Ruth Gledhill, a "new Pastoral Forum is to be set up to bring rebel provinces into line in the Anglican Communion." The full report will be popping up on blogosphere soon; one place to look for it will be the Anglicans United site , which promises to have it posted by 2 pm. Among other things, the document is ex ...

Related Topics: Casting Stones, Lambeth, Windsor