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<\/a>Rachel Held Evans is organizing a Christian Unity synchroblog<\/a>. Click through for details. It will focus not only on civility of discourse, but also working together across ideological divides on things that we can hopefully agree on \u00a0\u2013 like the importance of people having clean drinking water, and the need to raise money to help accomplish that<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In related news,\u00a0John Byron challenges the myth of the church\u2019s golden age<\/a>; Rachel Held Evans and Tripp Fuller talk about sex, salvation and the slippery slope<\/a>; and Joel Watts<\/a> is the first biblioblogger to break the news<\/a> that Hawaii has released the long form of Barack Obama\u2019s birth certificate<\/a>, which may help to restore sanity (as well as helping with the whole unity thing).<\/p>\n

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Rachel Held Evans is organizing a Christian Unity synchroblog. Click through for details. It will focus not only on civility of discourse, but also working together across ideological divides on things that we can hopefully agree on \u00a0\u2013 like the importance of people having clean drinking water, and the need to raise money to help […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nRally to Restore Unity Synchroblog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rachel Held Evans is organizing a Christian Unity synchroblog. Click through for details. 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