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Practices From the Inside Out: What is Advent All About?
What is Advent All About? I belong to a liturgical church. Each year we ask ourselves, "What is Advent all about?" When we get together we remember part of our story and we share a meal. One thing which make us "liturgical" is we follow an annual pattern of the parts of our...
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Latter-day Saint
Testimony From Afar: Eternal Gifts of the Wise Men
As a child growing up on the U.S. East Coast in a home without religious teachings, I learned Christmas carols at school (legal in times way past) and in the neighborhood. With enthusiasm we sang, "We Three Kings of Orient Are." We didn't know where "Orient-Are" might be. The...
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Save Us From Our Wolves
Christ often used the image of Himself as the shepherd loving and caring for His sheep.
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Global Faith and Media Study: Religion writers react
The largest-ever Global Faith and Media Study launched earlier this month and is shaking up the way people look at media's relationship with faith coverage. The study, commissioned by the Faith and Media Initiative (FAMI) and conducted by global market research company HarrisX,...
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Technology and Religion
Technology and Materialism
Technology has undoubted benefits. But modern technology can bring with it a certain mindset and worldview--utilitarianism, materialism, and reductionism--which, in turn, can lead to unintended consequences. A Swedish theologian applies the insights of Jacques Ellul, writing in...
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Study: Religious People May Be More Complex Thinkers Than Irreligious People
Testing Thought Complexity It's a fairly common trope: religious people are knuckle-dragging uneducated troglodytes more obsessed with conspiracy theories than with actual education, and elevating dogma over science. In 2018, researchers Shannon, Lucian, Kimberly, Alex, and...
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Bodhi Day 2022
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To Find Peace, Let Go
Progressive Catholics, Let Us Reason Together
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Here In The Disaster
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Join Me, Cynthia Bourgeault, Adam Bucko and more at the 2023 "Closer than Breath" Centering Prayer Summit!
Monastic Strategies: Contemplating Fire in a Fireplace
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That we might all be complete in Christ: Colossians 1-2: A devotional guide
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Evangelical
Pre-marital Sex Doesn't Reflect Gospel Love
An Alien Programmer? Or a Creator God?
Two prominent pastors return to ministry: What Matt Chandler and Johnny Hunt can teach us about the role of humility and the dangers of entitlement
Two prominent pastors return to ministry: What Matt Chandler and Johnny Hunt can teach us about the role of humility and the dangers of entitlement
Evangelical Preaching Tricks of the Trade: Manipulations from the Pulpit
The Next Generation of Complementarianism: A Response to Mike Winger
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how to be the church with the mind of Jesus | Philippians ii.1
New Documentary Tells the Story of When Johnny Cash Met Jesus
I am a Professing Christian. Here’s Why Some Don’t Agree.
Deconversion and "Religious Trauma Syndrome"
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Not a Diwali Post - Stop Cultural Appropriation
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It's Cyber Monday--How Are You Buying Christmas During Inflation?
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Singing the Blues: Depression and the Holidays
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The Return of David
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On Justifying Racism from the Book of Abraham, plus Some Thoughts on the Constitution
Regarding Two Christmas Carols
Prophecy being fulfilled, and not happily
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Testimony From Afar: Eternal Gifts of the Wise Men
Some Ways to Light the World
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How to Make Religious Celebrations Hard of Hearing Friendly
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Muslim Funeral Rites and the Islamic Society that Performs Them
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Love-Jihad: Use and misuse of the term
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The Coal Black Smith...
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Progressive Christian
"With Mutual Respect"--An Exercise in Eloquent Listening
Watching Luke 5
12/5 Flashback: Born that way
Preemptive Thoughts: Scott Eizember Clemency Hearing December 7 in Oklahoma
Want to overcome poverty and racial injustice? Change the educational system. Evangelicals, Justice, and Race #20
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An Alien Programmer? Or a Creator God?
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Pre-marital Sex Doesn't Reflect Gospel Love
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Two prominent pastors return to ministry: What Matt...
Two prominent pastors return to ministry: What Matt...
Deconversion and "Religious Trauma Syndrome"
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The Christmas Movie We Need Right Now
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Bodhi Day 2022
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Yet another witness to the Book of Mormon
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