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March 17, 2010

Jason Byassee: The black church is dead?

No more than the rest of the mainline.

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March 17, 2010

Wednesday's News & Ideas

  • Tattoos on the Heart
  • Guide to the Vatican crisis
  • Xavier basketball’s secret weapon
  • Leadership, the West Point way
  • Lessons from the megachurch
  • Cancer, life raised to a higher power
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March 17, 2010

Richard L. Floyd: “Prophetic” pastors who don’t love the church

If the main reason you become a pastor is to promote some cause, then your soul is in danger, and so is the congregation's.

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March 16, 2010

Tuesday's News & Ideas

  • Dawkins Down Under
  • ‘Generations of damage’
  • Training leaders, not just pastors
  • Latinos becoming secularized
  • Sabbath unplugged
  • Congregational finances and spiritual vitality
  • Supersonic jump
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March 16, 2010

Cynthia Weems: Where's your Ark?

What is sacred to those who live or work or worship with you? How do you place that where it draws in everyone -- and tells the truth?

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March 15, 2010

Monday's News & Ideas

  • Easter is about . . .?
  • CEO health warning
  • Church 2.0
  • Covering voodoo
  • Doctrine and spiritual formation
  • Tony Blair on religious offensive
  • Understanding the Crusades
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March 15, 2010

Tom Arthur: Money is crucial to discipleship. How do I ask about it?

How does a pastor even begin a conversation about money without making people feel like the church just wants theirs?

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March 12, 2010

Friday's News & Ideas

  • Hot topic for historians
  • Scary ushers
  • The innovator’s DNA
  • Celibacy to blame?
  • Clothing and the soul
  • Keep the homily brief
  • ‘One nation under God’
  • ‘War porn’
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March 12, 2010

Mark Chaves: What congregations are more political?

You might think white conservative Protestants are more political than black or mainline Protestants or Catholics. You’d be wrong.

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March 11, 2010

Thursday's News & Ideas

  • Death of the black church?
  • Pope’s defining moment?
  • LOL @ work
  • Tired of living?
  • Tax credit for 'family friendly films'
  • The overpopulation myth
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March 11, 2010

Lisa Nichols Hickman: Jesus heals not just the sick, but caregivers

Being a full-time caregiver can be a crummy job. But you know what Jesus does with crumbs.

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March 10, 2010

Wednesday's News & Ideas

  • New Baptist hymnal
  • Hologram preachers
  • Apology from Pope’s brother
  • Religiosity and business risks
  • Canadian Anglicans turn to Twitter
  • What sex is your brain?
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March 10, 2010

Anthony B. Robinson: The pastor (and Jesus) as cage-fighter

Maybe the new, counter-intuitive formula for church growth is this: be a stark alternative to whatever the dominant culture offers.

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March 9, 2010

Tuesday's News & Ideas

  • A word from Tutu
  • Religious bigotry
  • We’re all theologians
  • ‘Now I lay me down to sleep. . .’
  • UMC giving down
  • Young pastor brings new life
  • King James and the American writer
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March 9, 2010

Scott Benhase: The reptilian and the limbic

Before we can lead anyone, they have to know they are safe and included.

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