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A National Crisis – It is Time for the Church to Create an Act of God

June 5, 2012

Before -- This Foreclosed Home was Donated by a Bank in Lousiville, KY The foreclosure crisis is a national disaster. The Christian Church should treat it as such and respond. When a tornado, flood or h...

Remembering Is the First Act of Love: War, Peace and Memorial Day

David Zimmerman

May 27, 2012

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When I was a kid I'd go to mass on Sundays and hope that this week's eucharistic hymn would be my favorite: We remember how you loved us to your death And still we celebrate, for you are with us here. Our shar...

Verse a day makes for a good year

Kay Campbell

May 14, 2012

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Source: The Huntsville Times/Kay Campbell At about 1 p.m. on Sunday, April 20, 2012, sitting alone in the quiet and clean Taco Bell in the shadow of the new Sparkman Drive overpass, I had the immense...

Drive-Thru Prayers to Drive-In Church: Is Religion Lost?

Christian Piatt

May 13, 2012

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Author and theologian Diana Butler Bass shared a video recently about where she saw for the future of the church. She shared an interesting story about a priest who went out onto a busy street corner on Ask W...

Beyond the Culture Wars: A Faith of Our Own

RLC Editor

May 11, 2012

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The first President I remember is Bill Clinton. To be more specific: Bill Clinton’s second term. I’ve heard spectacles of the House Republican takeover in 1994 and stories of the Clinton v. Gingrich era but my ...

Sixty Percent

Morgan Guyton

May 9, 2012

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Sixty percent is a supermajority, who took time out of their busy schedules, who needed to make a statement, who wanted to leave a legacy, who knew exactly how and where lines must be drawn. So much good c...

Living Beyond Limbo – Turning “Eventuallys” into “Events”

Kurt Willems

April 27, 2012

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© 2009 Hartwig HKD , Flickr | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/ In less than two weeks I will be a seminary graduate. After five long and exhausting years, I will have a Masters of Divini...

Speaking Out Is Complicated (And So Is Staying Silent)

Brian McLaren

April 18, 2012

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For 24 years of my life, I was a church planter and pastor. At the beginning of those years, I would have gladly called myself an Evangelical. But those years coincided with the rise of the Religious Right...

Young Adults: Forget Church, Follow Jesus

Christian Piatt

April 14, 2012

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Two recent articles grabbed my attention, partly because they resonate quite a bit with the pieces I’ve written about Why Young Adults Leave Church. It’s also interesting to me that so many people seem to be t...

Is the Church Saving Souls and Losing Students?

Romal J. Tune

March 31, 2012

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Recent data suggest that African American and Hispanic males are the primary victims of the nation’s dropout crises. According to the Schott Foundation for Public Education, only 41% of Black males graduate f...