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February 8, 2010

Monday's News & Ideas

  • Seminaries under pressure
  • Craigslist: ‘Need mystery worshipper’
  • The miracles are window dressing
  • Skip the revenge movies
  • God at the office
  • We have met the enemy
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February 8, 2010

Tom Arthur: To have a church building or not?

Do bricks and mortar help or hinder mission?

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February 5, 2010

Friday's News & Ideas

  • Obama in the lion’s den
  • Do-gooder trap: They need MY help
  • Aging brains and silver tsunami
  • Sports fanatics
  • Collegial leadership
  • The light in midwinter
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February 5, 2010

Allegra Jordan: Solving the right problem

The problems of war, poverty, and disease pierced Maggy Barankitse like the nails of Calvary. She took those nails, picked up a hammer, and began to pound them into the foundations of a house of peace.

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February 4, 2010

Thursday's News & Ideas

  • Obama and the National Prayer Breakfast
  • Tolerance is a ‘negative virtue’
  • New plan for closed church: Move ‘em
  • Charismatic renewal at 50
  • Copeland - United Theological partnership
  • Umbilical wire
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February 4, 2010

Norman Sandridge: The limitations of metaphors for leadership

There may not be a perfect metaphor for leadership. Does "shepherd" really work?

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February 3, 2010

Wednesday's News & Ideas

  • Adoption as evangelism
  • Rob Bell on preaching
  • Bold risks produce bold innovation
  • Father knows best
  • #1 preacher: Billy Graham
  • Spray-on macho
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February 3, 2010

Jenny Williams: More entertainment or the gospel?

“Idiocracy” and “Fahrenheit 451” both predict a future without reading. The church can be another future -- through resistance, treasuring wisdom, and dirt.

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February 3, 2010

Jason Byassee: A blessing, father

Catholic ordination grants the power to bless, courtesy of the communion of the saints

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February 2, 2010

Tuesday's News & Ideas

  • Bailing on Obama
  • Apple’s approach to innovation
  • ‘Where feet, fist and faith collide’
  • Abstinence works?
  • House ball
  • Time flies
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February 2, 2010

Prince Raney Rivers: What comes after "contemporary" worship? The return of "traditional"

The usual story is of a pastor who staunches a church’s decline by introducing “contemporary” worship. But Macedonia Baptist in Pittsburgh capped its growth with a return to “traditional.”

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February 2, 2010

Cynthia Weems: Leadership and betrayal

We cannot let those we lead override what needs doing. But we can give them voice so enough that they won’t feel betrayed.

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February 1, 2010

Monday's News & Ideas

  • Wealth isn’t money
  • Retiring bishop concedes stagnation
  • First Church of Doritos
  • Tough times in Crystal City
  • Catholic mergers in Jersey
  • ‘A very fulfilling life’
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February 1, 2010

Anthony B. Robinson: Leaders are stewards of a (hopefully clear) mission

What do we do when a sense of mission is elusive, ignored, too much about us and not enough about God, or opposed by a small but vocal power bloc?

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February 1, 2010

Michael O. Emerson: Cracks in the Christian color wall

Large Protestant churches are more than twice as likely to be multiracial now compared to a decade ago. Why is that? And what does it mean for the rest of us?

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