All Blog Posts for April, 2011

Century Blogs

Clothed with joy right down to her feet

Apr 29, 2011 by Elizabeth Myer Boulton

Sometimes the news of the world can take the hope of Easter right out of you. Sometimes it's hard to believe in the resurrection.

And yet, this is how it happens: a woman, 38 years old, is diagnosed with breast cancer and has to have a total mastectomy. Two years later the cancer comes back, and her doctor schedules her for another mastectomy.

In the World

The rest of the Ryan budget

Apr 28, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

A series this week by Jonathan Cohn takes this point as its premise:

On the Shelf

How to Write a Sentence

And How to Read One

By Stanley Fish

One good sentence

Apr 27, 2011 by David Heim

Staring helplessly at a broken appliance or other household malfunction, I often recall a quip by Joseph Epstein, an essayist and editor: the only thing I can fix is a sentence.

From the CCblogs Network

Muddling through

How to lead a new faith community

Apr 26, 2011 by Adam J. Copeland

Leading a church that isn’t a “church,” doesn’t meet regularly, and has a loose version of itself is all rather tricky. It’s also a lot of fun. I’m four weeks into my position at Mission Developer with The Project F-M, and I’m discovering new joys and challenges each day.

Century Blogs

A missionary blogs it like it is

Apr 26, 2011 by Katherine Willis Pershey

When mission organizations send out promotional materials, they don't usually include missionary ruminations like Heather Hendrick's. She exposes her faith, doubt, frustration and hope with equal courage.

Century Blogs

Chick-fil-A on doing unto others

Apr 26, 2011 by Lisa Landoe

CEO Dan Cathy of the Chick-fil-A company has a new service model: the Sermon on the Mount. "Here's the deal," Cathy announced recently at the second annual Imagination Summit in California. "All of us were created in God's image."

From the CCblogs Network

Do you recognize the risen Lord?

Apr 25, 2011 by Daniel P. Horan

Easter brings with it an abundance of natural joy and reason for celebration. The love of God poured out for us through the Incarnation, the life, the death and now the resurrection, which today we commemorate, of Jesus of Nazareth is made known in the most powerful ways.

Blogging Toward Sunday

From high to low

Apr 25, 2011 by Kenneth H. Carter Jr.

This week is the Second Sunday of Easter, aka "low Sunday." There is in the life of a church a movement and momentum toward Easter Sunday, and then inevitably a scattering, a rest after the intensity. And yet the gospel lesson does wrestle with the implications of belief, unbelief and doubt.

Century Blogs

The Easter gospel lesson's structure

Apr 22, 2011 by John Dart

"They have taken my Lord away," says a tearful Mary Magdalene, "and I do not know where they have laid him." Mary utters some version of this lament three times in the Easter Sunday reading from John. D. Moody Smith calls it "an answer of unparalleled poignancy."

In the World

A tax receipt at last?

Apr 21, 2011 by Steve Thorngate

It looks like the U.S. government may be well on its way toward issuing each taxpayer an itemized receipt. As I've said before, this is a really good idea.

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