All Blog Posts for January, 2013

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"How many people have you brought to Christ?"

Jan 31, 2013 by John Nash

At a recent clergy gathering, one of the other preachers said that the problem with the church is that we aren’t asking the right questions. He said that the only question we should ask is how many people we have brought to Christ this year. When he said that, everyone sort of turned their heads and looked at him sort of funny, not sure what he was actually saying.

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Violence comes to Seydnaya

Jan 31, 2013 by Barbara Law

Fadia is Syrian, 25 and very very lucky: she managed to escape the country and the war.

In the World

The Senate's modest milestone

Jan 30, 2013 by Steve Thorngate

The good news: the U.S. will now have the highest number of African-American senators ever.

The bad news: that number is two. Out of 100.

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Daniel Day-Lewis and the art of the holy "no"

Jan 30, 2013 by Drew McIntyre

I said no to something recently, something pretty cool. Not because I wasn’t interested, or because it wouldn’t be beneficial in some ways. I just knew that saying “yes” meant I could not do that, and probably many other things, as well as I should. So I said no.

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Hard lockdown

Jan 29, 2013 by Amy Frykholm

There is a line in Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine that has come back to me recently: “After Columbine, it really sucked being a student in America.”

Since the Newtown shooting, my son’s school has gone into “hard lockdown” mode twice.

In the World

The Barna Group thinks I'm a "notional Christian"

Jan 29, 2013 by Steve Thorngate

The Barna Group's recent religious freedom poll is pretty interesting. Evangelicals overwhelmingly support religious freedom and are concerned about its possible demise—yet a majority of them also believe that "traditional Judeo-Christian values should be given preference."

Tribal Church

Why can't we just get another cross?

Understanding our hard-wired need to protect sacred items

Jan 28, 2013 by Carol Howard Merritt

Even as a Reformed minister, who is a product of the regrettable history of iconoclasm and who warns that our minds can be "factories of idols," I know every worshiping community has sacred items. 

Blogging Toward Sunday

Enraging good news

Luke 4:21–30

Jan 28, 2013 by Matthew Myer Boulton and Elizabeth Myer Boulton

Jesus, filled with the power of the Holy Spirit and still wet from his baptism, comes back to his home synagogue, publicly claims that he is the fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophesy, and is praised by everyone. Then, within five verses, everyone in the synagogue is filled with rage. They drive him out of town so that they might hurl him off a cliff.

What happened?

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An unquenchable trust

Jan 25, 2013 by John Vest

The below train of thought was prompted by reflection on my grandmother’s death and the opportunity I had to officiate her funeral. She was quite certain about what awaited her on the other side.

I, on the other hand, am deeply agnostic about what happens to us when we die.

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