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Topic: Mainline Christianity

March 1, 2010

Monday's News & Ideas

  • The new internationalists: Evangelicals
  • Where are the Protestants?
  • St. Paul, the radical
  • Let these women pray!
  • Theology of tenure
  • The teen brain
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June 11, 2009

David J. Wood: Youth and the mainline

Mainline churches struggle to get young people, but the young people they get are often constitutionally 'old.'

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December 14, 2009

Tom Arthur: How do I integrate a mainline heritage with church growth?

I became a Methodist on purpose. But church growth strategies want me to leave the label behind.

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March 8, 2010

Monday's News & Ideas

  • Protestant on the Supreme Court?
  • Churchianity
  • Anti-abortion drive
  • Osteen in the UK
  • Lost Jewish tribe of Zimbabwe
  • Mysticism is dying
  • Placebo effect
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July 1, 2009

Wednesday's News & Ideas

  • Too much change at Riverside?
  • Pastors do radio ads for healthcare reform
  • Paleontologists visit Bedrock
  • Velvet-lined carriages with LED lighting
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January 15, 2010

Friday's News & Ideas

  • Time is running out
  • Pastor-group oil strike
  • Jewish-Catholic relations
  • British immigration squabbles
  • Counseling skills lower clergy stress
  • Slow walk in a field of wildflowers
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March 10, 2009

Tuesday's News & Ideas

  • Mainline: not so bad. Evangelicals: not so good
  • Elway is a celebrity worth celebrating
  • When money is gone, do people really turn to faith?
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October 21, 2009

John Schmalzbauer: Newspapers and the mainline in parallel decline

The parallels between the decline in print journalism and that in mainline Protestantism are eerie. Their renewal will require creative renewals of the best of their traditions for a new day.

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February 17, 2010

Wednesday's News & Ideas

  • Religion among the Millennials
  • Catholic, Mormon and AoG up
  • Harvard’s crisis of faith
  • A new St. Patrick
  • Spiritual director boom
  • If the Church were Christian
  • Lung transplant or eternity?
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May 18, 2009

Jason Byassee: Maudlin disbelief

Memo to Reece: Quit reacting to your granddaddy's backwoods Neanderthalism and join us in the task of living in faith for a new day.

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