{"id":1188,"date":"2013-09-27T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/09\/top-five-posts-for-the-week-of-september-20-27-2013.html"},"modified":"2013-09-27T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T21:31:00","slug":"top-five-posts-for-the-week-of-september-20-27-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/09\/top-five-posts-for-the-week-of-september-20-27-2013.html","title":{"rendered":"Top Five Posts for the Week of September 20-27, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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Alcorn State University has named a Jackson pastor as rector of the Historic Oakland Memorial Chapel and director of Student Religious Life, concluding a two-year search. The Rev. C. Edward Rhodes II, pastor of Mount Helm Baptist Church, begins his tenure at Alcorn on September 15, 2013. On that Sunday, Rector Rhodes will lead\u00a0an interfaith service in the recently renovated campus chapel.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

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When God Says No: Part 2<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

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My husband CMadison died May 20, 2013, at home, literally in my arms with a smile on his face.\u00a0God neither healed nor delivered in the way I very expressly requested.\u00a0 I asked believing and as much as possible I was in a place of obedience. Yet I can attest that my prayers as one of the righteous did avail much. Those prayers, in conjunction with the prayers of many others, coupled with the grace and mercy of God, are the reason CMadison survived a potentially deadly bone infection, a partial amputation, a broken neck, two spinal surgeries interrupted by a \u201ccardiac incident\u201d along with multiple medical \u201cmiscalculations\u201d. The coupling of believed prayers with abundant mercy is the reason CMadison survived four months of hospitalization followed by three months of institutional rehabilitation. Daily fervent prayers, new mercies and amazing meals prepared from my garden and served by me, are why CMadison experienced a miraculous and complete recover from the anoxic brain injury sustained as a result of the cardiac \u201cincident\u201d and how he transitioned from a quadriplegic to someone with full upper body control and continued nerve regeneration through his lower body.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Why #Millennials Are Spending Less Time in #Church<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/h3>\n

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Over the past month or so, there has been quite a bit of Internet chatter as to why Millennials aren\u2019t going to church. As a member of their big sister generation, Generation X, the eternal little sister to the Baby Boomers, I\u2019m torn between apathy and Jan Brady Syndrome.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>(\u201cMarcia, Marcia, Marcia<\/i>!\u201d)<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Of course, we should be concerned when any generation is turning away from the church in large numbers, especially at a time when church attendance across denominations is dropping faster than a brick off a tall building. Even though there are millennials who are quite active in their churches, we should still be questioning why there are such high levels of disenchantment with the weekend ritual of getting dressed up and going to Sunday morning worship. So what went wrong? I think people are skipping out on church for two general reasons: perceived hypocrisy and lack of access to social media.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era: An Interview with the Editors<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

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On March 23, 2010,\u00a0Paul Harvey posted a call for papers<\/a>\u00a0for a conference at Rice\u00a0University on \u201cMillennialism\u00a0and Providentialism\u00a0in the Era of the American Civil War.\u201d The papers presented at the conference that October formed the basis for an anthology titled\u00a0Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era<\/a>,\u00a0<\/i>set to be\u00a0published this November by LSU Press.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/h3>\n


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Pope Meets With Liberation Theology Pioneer<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Some observers of the Catholic theological scene are saying that a personal meeting between Pope Francis and Dominican Fr. Gustavo Guti\u00e9rrez could mark a thaw in decades of frosty relations between the church\u2019s hierarchy and liberation theologians.\u00a0<\/span>Guti\u00e9rrez, a Peruvian, coined the phrase \u201cliberation theology.\u201d The theology is marked by its concern for liberation of the world\u2019s people from unjust economic or social conditions. It was developed in Latin America during the region\u2019s military dictatorships in the 1960s and \u201970s.<\/span><\/span>
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