All Blog Posts for July, 2012

Century Blogs

Forty years of needlework

Jul 26, 2012 by Carol Zaleski

The Plymouth Needlers have finished their work: four giant embroideries, each made to a design by legendary illustrator Pauline Baynes.

Century Blogs

Wednesday digest

Jul 25, 2012

New today from the Century: Brueggemann on Naaman, a fourth year of lections, more.

From the CCblogs Network

Blessed are the peacemakers?

Jul 25, 2012 by Carol Kuniholm

Jesus said “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God.”

In the World

A fourth year of lections?

Jul 25, 2012 by Steve Thorngate

I've had a convert's fervor for liturgical worship ever since I stumbled upon an ELCA music position as a recent Wheaton College grad with a very low-church background. (When my much-younger sister advanced pretty far in the state spelling bee but didn't win, my dad told her to call me. "I lost on a word I've never heard of: 'liturgy,'" she said. "Dad said you'd know why that was funny.")

Century Blogs

Billions for family planning

Jul 24, 2012 by Debra Bendis

While Americans debate contraception coverage, women elsewhere in the world are dying in childbirth (pregnancy is the biggest killer of teenage girls worldwide), despairing because they can’t feed their children, or living with debilitating wounds incurred because of inadequate labor and postpartum care.

Century Blogs

Tuesday digest

Jul 24, 2012

New today from the Century: Suzanne Guthrie on LA's cathedral, Debra Bendis on new family planning funding, more.

From the CCblogs Network

Mike Huckabee and America's sin problem

Jul 24, 2012 by James F. McGrath

On his talk show, Mike Huckabee had the following to say about the shooting in Aurora, Colorado (that link goes to the Fox video; there are excerpts in print here):

Ultimately, We don’t have a crime problem or a gun problem – or even a violence problem. What we have is a sin problem. And since we ordered God out of our schools and communities, the military and public conversations, you know, we really shouldn’t act so surprised when all hell breaks loose.

Century Blogs

Monday digest

Jul 23, 2012

New today from the Century: Stopping child abuse, talking about guns, more.

Blogging Toward Sunday

The problem of preaching miracle stories

2 Kings 4:42–44; John 6:1–21

Jul 23, 2012 by Joshua Carney

Jesus and Elisha perform great miracles. What do we modern westerners do with this?

It’s possible you come from a church background in which the obvious takeaway is to pray for God to do the same thing in our lives here and now. Or maybe you believe such events are still possible, but less probable.

In any case, most of us preachers want to avoid suggesting that the difference between then and now is our lack of faith.

Century Blogs

Can we talk about guns?

Jul 21, 2012 by Richard A. Kauffman

America's problem with guns is multigenerational and multilayered. It has to do with our origin myths, myths grounded in redemptive violence.

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