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Ask a Universalist….
We’re taking advantage of our “Ask a…” series to talk with some of today’s leading theologians about the difficult topic of hell. Yesterday, Edward Fudge responded to your questions about...
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Ask a Universalist…(Response)
We’re taking advantage of our “Ask a…” series to talk with some of today’s leading theologians about the difficult topic of hell. Earlier this week, Edward Fudge responded to your questions about...
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Sunday Superlatives 7/7/2013
IRL…It has been raining for five days straight here in East Tennessee, resulting in terrible flooding and a very disappointing 4th of July. This afternoon I caught a brief glimpse of what I believe was...
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Everyone’s a Biblical Literalist Until You Bring Up Gluttony
…Or divorce, or gossip, or slavery, or head coverings, or Jesus’ teachings on nonviolence, or the “abomination” of eating shellfish and the hell-worthy sin of calling other people idiots. Then we need...
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Listening…
“Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the...
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What I did on my summer vacation
I went to my favorite place in the world.(view from the Many Glacier Hotel in Glacier National Park)I spent some quality time with friends.(at Logan Pass, Glacier National Park)I spent some quality...
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Killing Me Softly: On Privilege and Voice (by Christena Cleveland)
Today I am thrilled to introduce you to Christena Cleveland, one of my favorite bloggers. Christena is a social psychologist who's all about helping people use their heads, hearts and hands to do the...
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Ask a traditionalist 1 (free will, postmortem repentance)….
We’re taking advantage of our “Ask a…” series to talk with some of today’s leading theologians about the difficult topic of hell. Earlier this month, Edward Fudge responded to your questions about...
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Why I can’t stay angry (even though I want to)
Sometimes I get angry. I get angry when a young woman describes what it felt like to watch men stand up and leave the sanctuary when she approached the podium to give her first sermon. I get angry when...
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On millennials and the Church...
I wrote an article about millennials and the Church for the CNN Belief Blog today. Hope its starts some conversations! At 32, I barely qualify as a millennial. I wrote my first essay with a pen and...
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Sunday Superlatives 7/28/13
Around the Blogosphere…Best Video:N.T. Wright at The Work of the People with “Look At Jesus” “We’ve never had Jesus in our pockets.” Best Photo: NPR with “The 40 year Old Photo That Gives Us Reason To...
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More on millennials and the future of Christianity...(a list of resources &...
Well, my CNN post on millennials and the Church got shared like crazy this weekend, (with over 130,000 Facebook shares so far), so I guess it struck a nerve! I hadn’t intended it to be a comprehensive...
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Hell Series: Ask a traditionalist 1 (free will, postmortem repentance)….response
We’re taking advantage of our “Ask a…” series to talk with some of today’s leading theologians about the difficult topic of hell. Earlier this month, Edward Fudge responded to your questions about...
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An animated conversation about the Bible.
So last winter I had the awesome privilege of sitting down with a bunch of people WAY smarter than me to drink inordinate amounts of coffee and talk about the Bible. (You know you’re in over your head...
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Be careful of dismissing another person’s painful (or joyful) Church experience
As responses to my CNN post about why millennials leave the church have been pouring in, and as accusations of consumerism fly from one end and of hypocrisy from the other, I was reminded of an older...
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Christians and Education Inequity: An Interview with Nicole Baker Fulgham
When Nicole Baker Fulgham met one of her fellow faith-based public school advocates for coffee once, he recounted a conversation he had with a friend who is a long-time elementary school principal in...
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New Post at CNN + Top ‘Millennial’ Responses + What the heck just happened?
So that was weird….Last week I wrote a post for the CNN Belief Blog about millennials and the Church focusing on how church leaders hoping to win twenty-somethings over with coffee shops and concerts...
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Sunday Superlatives 8/4/2013
Around the Blogosphere…Best Interview:Women in Leadership: An Interview with Nikki Toyama-Szeto“There are also cycles of power we need to recognize. It’s very interesting to look through a Christian...
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FREE discussion guide for “A Year of Biblical Womanhood” now available
People often ask me what on earth was going through my mind when I decided to try a year of biblical womanhood. My answer is always the same: I wanted to start a conversation—about faith, about...
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'Breaking Bad,' Sin, & CNN
UPDATE: CNN interview bumped due to breaking news. May reschedule for same time next week. Will let you know! My post for the CNN Belief Blog today is about the reality of sin and why we love ‘Breaking...
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