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Flunking Sainthood
What Evangelicals Might Learn from Mormons … and Mormons Should Learn from Rob Bell
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Jana Riess
Rob Bell is my kind of heretic. His new book Love Wins: A Book about Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived has been loudly branded as heresy by fellow evangelicals Mark Driscoll and John Piper. That made me inclined to like it already, as Driscoll in particular has never been…
The Civil War and America as a Christian Nation
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Jana Riess
The Civil War began 150 years ago today, an anniversary marked by the rebroadcast of Ken Burns’s masterful PBS series and a kajillion re-enactments this year. As we pause at this sesquicentennial commemoration we would do well to think of the Civil War as what Eric Foner rightly called it: America’s Second Revolution. The Civil…
Half the Sky, Half the Church: Carolyn Custis James on Christian Women
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Jana Riess
If, like me, you were fascinated by Half the Sky, Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas Kristof’s gripping account of women’s oppression and liberation around the world, you may be interested in Half the Church, Carolyn Custis James’s new book on a global understanding of Christian women. The bits I’ve read show that James writes from a…
Chatting with Brian McLaren, Part 2
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Jana Riess
Brian McLaren talks about the 12 spiritual practices that can change your life, the future of Protestant denominations, and how he brings his books to life. Today we continue the Q&A we started yesterday with Brian McLaren, one of my favorite religion authors. His beautifully personal new book Naked Spirituality is a departure from…
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