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Click Here to Help Haiti!: A Q&A with Haiti Partners Co-Director Kent Annan
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Jana Riess
You may have heard Kent Annan in the news recently, whether blogging for CNN about the first anniversary of the Haiti earthquake or describing the social perils of “poverty tourism” in the Huffington Post. As the co-director of Haiti Partners, an educational organization that founds schools and trains teachers, he’s acquainted with suffering, both before…
Christian Faith Reignited . . . At a Mosque? Leanna Tankersley’s Story
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Jana Riess
I’m always looking for interfaith stories, and this one is beautiful. Healing words like Leanna’s are especially needed nowadays, when many of her fellow evangelical Christians are deeply suspicious of Islam. –JKR “A Borrowed Abaya and a Middle Eastern Mosque” By Leanna Tankersley When Steve and I had been married just eight days, we boarded…
Attention Publicists, Authors, and Bloggers: Opportunities to Guest Post
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Jana Riess
Friends, as many of you know, I am going to be teaching part-time during the spring semester at Miami University of Ohio. I’m excited about this opportunity, but since this is in addition to my regular job as an acquisitions editor it means I’ll have less time over the next few months to devote to…
Ira Craddock, Victorian Sex Therapist and Spiritual Seeker: A Q&A with Biographer Leigh Schmidt
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Jana Riess
When I was a graduate student in American religious history, I had the privilege of taking a couple of classes with Leigh Schmidt at Princeton University. Now at Harvard Divinity School, Leigh has continued his stellar career with several more interesting books, including one published this month about a 19th-century doyenne I’d never even heard…
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