From the CCblogs Network Posts for December, 2011

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The most popular network posts of the year

Dec 29, 2011

Here are this year's most popular bloggers and posts from the CCblogs network.

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They must not believe in God

Dec 21, 2011 by Ryan Dueck

“They must not believe in God.”

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Pastoring during the holidays

Dec 20, 2011 by David Lewicki

It's become a cliche in pastor circles. How hard the holidays are. Sometimes cliches can make the reality rather than represent it, but in this case, I do think the holidays are particularly challenging for most pastors.

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A labor of vision

Dec 16, 2011 by Ryan Dueck

This morning, I read of Christopher Hitchens’ passing and felt very sad.

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Jesus was an occupier

Dec 14, 2011 by James W. McCarty III

Recently I wrote a piece responding to Tony Perkins’s piece at CNN in which he claims that Jesus was not an occupier, but was “a free-marketer.” Well, his piece upset me so much I’ve decided to write another response to that ludicrous claim.

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Our most dangerous prayer

Dec 09, 2011 by Steve Pankey

If you’ve spent much time on this blog, you’ll know that I think rather highly of the collects (the prayers appointed for each Sunday) as offered in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. Some of majestic, some are beautiful, some are funny, and some, like this Sunday’s, are downright dangerous.

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Blame the messenger

Dec 07, 2011 by James Sledge

It has not happened all that often, but on occasions someone has been upset enough with a sermon I've preached to call me up and complain.

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The Advent we hope for

Dec 06, 2011 by Debra Dean Murphy

Whenever I attend Catholic mass during Advent, as I did last weekend, I’m always struck by how it is simply assumed—how it’s a liturgical . . . no, an ontological given—that Christmas is nowhere yet in sight.

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Physics and faith

Dec 05, 2011 by Nancy Janisch

One of the things people say about Christianity is that Christians believe odd, impossible things. And well, they’re right. We do.

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God's ironic hatred in Romans 9?

Dec 01, 2011 by James F. McGrath

This past Sunday in my Sunday school class, we reached Romans 9. I was struck recently for the first time by the possibility that Paul’s use of texts in this section might be profoundly and perhaps intentionally ironic.