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Earlier this month, GetReligion mentioned that Stephen Meyer of the intelligent design movement had published an essay in Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, mentioning only briefly the indignation that Meyer’s article caused.
The Los Angeles Times dropped a splurge of religious stories yesterday. The articles are not directly connected to one another, but all have ties to one another. Itââ¬â¢s one of those things that the editor probably didn’t realize until looking over the paper the next day.
So you are the pastor of an ordinary, middle-of-the-road mainline church in the heart of flyover America.
I’m from the great Hoosier state and I can’t say I was too proud to see earlier this year that a county judge from our largest city — Indianapolis — barred a couple of parents from exposing their children to “non-mainstream religion beliefs and rituals,ââ¬Â particularly Wicca.
The perfectly bizarre story of Brother Roger’s murder at Taizé, the religious community he founded in 1940, has caused a humble ripple today on the Godbeat. Most of the stories are competent summaries of Brother Roger’s life and ministry.
If there are any screenwriters out there who want a bizarre real-life story about original sin, look no further than this amazing (and oh so depressing) Los Angeles Times feature story by Tonya Alanez about the life and times of con man Federiqkoe DiBritto III.
. . . (The) Christian worldview’s truth claims include an admonition for Christians to be “salt, light, and leaven,” individually and collectively, on their spheres of influence. That truth claim presupposes that their spheres of influence would benefit from a collective and intentional Christian influence, and also presupposes such intentional and collective influence is possible.
I had one of those moments of techno-transcendence this morning on the MARC train as I rolled into Washington, D.C.
Headlines can be tricky things. In perusing the stories on the upcoming World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany, I came across three distinct types. The most basic news story simply contained edicts declaring the beginning of World Youth Day, often with a large number attached:
