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Grace without conversion
Our congregation helped build a parish school in the West Bank. In return, Palestinian Christians stretched our understanding of the gospel.
Monday digest
New today from the Century: Craig Barnes on grace without conversion, Lou Carlozo reviews Kris Kristofferson, more.
Breath of silence
When the angel of the Lord told Elijah to go to Mount Horeb, Elijah knew he would encounter God. After all, Horeb was where God spoke to Moses with fire and to Israel with a storm. But for Elijah, God didn’t show up as expected.
Feeling Mortal, by Kris Kristofferson
It’s easy to write Kris Kristofferson off as another country songwriter trawling the shallows of whiskey, diesels and cornpone imagery. But that’s a myopic read of the Rhodes scholar, William Blake devotee, Golden Gloves boxer and helicopter pilot.
Other people saying things
"Extraction companies are buying up the rights to drill on private property with unprecedented speed. At stake are geysers of money. And in the thousands of cases in which the landowner is of the Amish faith, their business partner would never dream of taking them to court should things go awry."
Friday digest
New today from the Century: Jason Byassee on Star Trek, Diane Roth on evangelism, more.
Galactic hopes
Star Trek has long been insistently nonreligious. But in the end it has not replaced religion, just repurposed it.
Cultivating a holy imagination: Ministry in the 21st century
"I eventually realized that leaders are not made by books or workshops," says Lisa Yebuah of Edenton Street United Methodist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. "Leaders are people who marry their knowledge to action."