All Blog Posts for March, 2011

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Are foodies gluttons?

Mar 11, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

By now, the no-longer-new food movement has provoked files full of skeptical responses. Most follow familiar scripts: foodies are elitist, or environmentally ignorant, or impractical about global hunger.

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Mar 11, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

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Rend your hearts and not your garments

Mar 10, 2011 by Melissa Florer-Bixler

Yesterday I traveled to Elizabeth, NJ to celebrate Ash Wednesday. This vigil was unique in that it took place outside the Correction Corporation of America detention center. This purposefully inconspicuous building is tucked in an industrial zone outside the city. It houses 300 undocumented persons.

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"A religious faith perhaps"

Mar 10, 2011 by Martin E. Marty

Those of us who enjoy poetry had good reason to be cheered by a two-column article on poet Richard Wilbur in a recent issue of the Wall Street Journal. Author Richard B. Woodward did well by him as he and we celebrated Wilbur's 90^th birthday.

The other Rob Bell

Mar 10, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

Amid the apocalyptic to-do about Rob Bell possibly considering an idea that other Christians have considered for centuries, Rachel Held Evans had a fun idea: an interview with another Rob Bell, a web designer in the U.K.

News cycle

Mar 09, 2011 by David Heim

A blogger at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America points out that some lines of Paul-Gordon Chandler's article on events in Egypt are unusually close to lines in a February 19 article in the New York Times—and charges that Chandler lifted them from the Times.

I will wait

Mar 09, 2011 by Ryan Dueck

Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the season of Lent, the day when ashes are placed on foreheads, and the words “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return” are proclaimed. For whatever reason, throughout my life, I have rarely needed this reminder.

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Rob Bell goes after stumbling blocks

Mar 08, 2011 by Bromleigh McCleneghan

Paul tells us to "resolve" never to put a hindrance to the gospel before another person—and resolve is what it takes. By initiating a conversation about hell, Rob Bell is putting his reputation on the line.

Libya illusions

Mar 08, 2011 by David Heim

Neo-cons at the Weekly Standard like Bill Kristol, Republican leaders like Mitch McConnell and John McCain, and liberal interventionists such as John Kerry and Joe Lieberman are calling for

Free and flawed

Mar 07, 2011 by Samuel Wells

The first Sunday of Lent is the best time of the year to talk about sin. Many people in the church, especially the mainline church, are stuck when it comes to the overlap of sin and sensuality. No one really wants to be the pastor who comes over all judgmental about sex.

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