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The improbably successful King James Bible

Historian David C. Steinmetz looks back at how a committee of unlikely authors developed the King James Bible, which is the second most popular translation of the Bible in the U.S. 400 years after its introduction.

By David C. Steinmetz Amos Reagan Kearns Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity, Duke Divinity School

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Imagination, culture making and The Saint John’s Bible

Art is both a product of imagination and what sparks it. Pastors, students and others reflect on the illuminations in The Saint John’s Bible and make their own books as an act of spiritual and theological reflection.

By Benjamin McNutt Writer

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Allegra Jordan: How to “Let it go.”

By Allegra Jordan

Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson hosted King, taught in Selma Public Schools, and has a system to move past bitterness.

Melissa Wiginton: The church and the trailer food movement

By Melissa Wiginton Vice president, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

What do we have to learn from those who serve up comfort food, using local vernacular, with no building or advertising?

Laura Wacker Stern: Struggling with leadership “effectiveness”

By Laura Stern Senior Pastor, Apex United Methodist Church

Models of "success" seem cold in light of the Gospel.

Scott Benhase: No, David Brooks, we don’t calculate forgiveness

By Scott Benhase Vicar, St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church

We practice forgiveness because it is the way to share in the very life of God.

Gannon Sims: Baptist (and catholic) church planting

By Gannon Sims Director, ministry formation and Virginia regional coordinator, Fresh Expressions US.

For Baptists in Virginia, these new ways of doing church are quite old.

Gerardo Marti: Welcome to Pub Church

By Gerardo Martí Professor of sociology, Davidson College

What its organizers most reject is an authoritarian, dictatorial stance toward leadership.

Every person who ever lived?

Religion reporter Cathleen Falsani writes about her old Wheaton College buddy Rob Bell and “Love Wins,” his provocative new book.

By Cathleen Falsani Journalist

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