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Anonymous
I've been reading the New Testament all this summer, reading a few chapters a day and writing about them....
Russian band punished for ‘religious hatred’
A Moscow court has found three members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot guilty of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” after a guerrilla performance in Moscow’s main cathedral in Februar...
Hard questions
As we continue to play around with different ways to make Sunday morning flow better at my church, one of the things we have tried is to “divide and conquer” the receiving line after worship....
Links? Links.
Here are some things I read recently but didn't get around to blogging about.
Friday digest
New today from the Century: Brian Doyle makes his confession, Steve Pankey takes tough questions after worship, more.
Reading Like a Serpent, by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is one of McEntyre’s favorite books....
Paul Ryan, Joe Biden: A tale of two Catholics
c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) The 2012 presidential campaign could bear a new subtitle: A Tale of Two Catholics. ...
Motive unknown in shooting at Family Research Council headquarters
c. 2012 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) A security guard is recovering after he was shot Wednesday morning (Aug....
Amish-Mennonite pastor convicted of abetting kidnapping
c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) A Vermont jury found an Amish-Mennonite pastor guilty Tuesday (Aug. 14) of abetting an international kidnapping to keep a young girl from her lesbian parent....
Stimulus needed: How to create jobs
Unemployment is a human crisis. Yet the Obama administration, Congress and the Fed mostly act like it's not their problem.
Key rabbinic vacancy in Jerusalem stays unfilled
Some two years ago a group of journalists was invited to a meeting to discuss the election of a new Ashkenazic chief rabbi of Jerusalem. The post had been vacant for about six years....
Thousands of dreamers
In the last few year, it's been incredible to see undocumented immigrants courageously gathering, organizing, demonstrating for reform, outing themselves as undocumented....
Learning from the Cheesecake Factory
When Mitt Romney and other critics of the Affordable Care Act say that Americans don’t need or want a ...
No, it's not remarkable that Ryan keeps getting reelected by wide margins
I don't usually nitpick weak media coverage of electoral politics, but I take it personally when it's about the place where I grew up....
Thursday digest
New today from the Century: Tom Perrotta's Rapture novel, how to create jobs, more.
The Leftovers, by Tom Perrotta
What if the Rapture really happened? This is the question Tom Perrotta takes up in his novel The Leftovers....