All Blog Posts for February, 2012

Century Blogs

Monday digest

Feb 13, 2012

New from the Century: inmates and seminarians, Jesus and contraception, family and faith formation, more.

Tribal Church

Would Jesus dispense contraceptive pills?

Feb 12, 2012 by Carol Howard Merritt

God is concerned with the health of women. God cares about teenagers who end up in a lifetime of poverty. Jesus healed the bleeding woman 2,000 years ago, and I think if he walked the streets today, he just might hand her a packet of pink pills. 

From the CCblogs Network

Hey baby, wanna wrestle?

Parenting's battle scars

Feb 10, 2012 by Laura Kelly Fanucci

Parenting has permanently changed my body.

And I don’t mean the usual wear-and-tear brought on by bearing, birthing or nursing babies. That’s all too obvious.

I’m talking about my nose. Specifically, the bridge of my nose.

In the World

Rick Santorum is not sexist, but he does have some concerns

Feb 10, 2012 by Steve Thorngate

The Pentagon: Women can serve in more, though still not all, critical combat roles than before.

Rick Santorum: "I do have concerns about women in front line combat. I think that could be a very compromising situation where - where people naturally, you know, may do things that may not be in the interests of the mission because of other types of emotions that are involved."

John Potter: "I can't be the only one who thought of" 30 Rock.

From the CCblogs Network

All of my evidence is anecdotal

Feb 09, 2012 by Diane Roth

Which is to say:  all I have is stories.

I noticed a young family gone absent from worship. She is a gifted musician and actress; they have two young children. She did a benefit concert here once full of wonderful musical numbers; all the proceeds went to cancer research. I had been somewhat connected with them and eventually found her on Facebook, where I noticed that her religious affiliation was "atheist."

Oh.

Century Blogs

Thursday digest

Feb 09, 2012

New today from the Century: pretending the Bible, occupying our faith, more.

Tribal Church

Occupy our faith

Can we move from the encampments to the important work of speaking on behalf of the poor?

Feb 09, 2012 by Carol Howard Merritt

What are we doing to combat poverty in our country and make sure that we join the voices of the prophets who speak out against injustice? Often denominational churches work hard on these issues, but we do it within our particular silos and we may not effectively communicate our work.

Century Blogs

Wednesday digest

Feb 08, 2012

New today from the Century: Amazon, sales tax and the Century website; a review of the film Carnage; more.

In the World

Where did the Amazon links go? and other website changes

Feb 08, 2012 by Steve Thorngate

As many of you have noticed, the Century no longer has links to Amazon on its website. To explain this, I took to the magazine.

Century Blogs

God gets the last word

The gospel in seven words or less

Feb 07, 2012 by Martin B. Copenhaver

To be sure, the second-to-last word, which can be very powerful, can be given to something else.

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