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2010-06-10T17:40:10+00:00

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Going Interfaith: Claremont School of Theology’s Radical Move

Last updated on: June 10, 2010 at 5:40 pm By Deborah Arca

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An exciting week for interreligious dialogue and the future of theological education: Claremont School of Theology, the historic United Methodist Seminary in southern California, announced this week that it is "going interfaith" and forming teaching partnerships with a Jewish academy and an Islamic center. Read more

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2010-06-10T16:29:04+00:00

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Taking Simon the Pharisee to School: Lectionary Reflections for Sunday

Last updated on: June 10, 2010 at 4:29 pm By Alyce McKenzie

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In our lectionary text for June 13 from Luke 7:36-8:3, Simon the Pharisee objects to the devotion shown to Jesus by a woman who is a “sinner.” Who says being as judgmental as Simon is less serious than whatever this woman's sins have been? Read more

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2014-06-13T20:02:10+00:00

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The Friend at Midnight: A Father’s Day Sermon

Last updated on: June 13, 2014 at 8:02 pm By Alyce McKenzie

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Father’s Day is a day when we stand on our father’s doorstep and offer him thanks. How do you thank a good father? With a card and an invitation to lunch. With a cordless drill, a Weber grill, or a hobby tie? Those are the three most popular Father’s Day gifts this year. Read more

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2010-06-09T14:18:39+00:00

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Holy Hospitality: Seeing Christ in the Immigrant

Last updated on: June 9, 2010 at 2:18 pm By Guest Contributor

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What would have happened to our Savior had his family been refused comfort and hospitality in a strange land? Bruce Epperly reflects on the recent Arizona Immigration Law from a biblical lens and offers some suggestions for a Christian approach to immigration. Read more

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2010-06-08T11:55:12+00:00

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The Call of Retreat: Unfurl

Last updated on: June 8, 2010 at 11:55 am By Guest Contributor

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As summer begins, spiritual director Christine Valters Paintner offers this invitation to slow down and notice what's unfurling within you. Read more

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2010-06-07T16:44:29+00:00

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One Nation Under God, and a lot of stress

Last updated on: June 7, 2010 at 4:44 pm By Alyce McKenzie

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My 21-year-old son got home 3 days ago from a semester spent in Copenhagen, on a study abroad program sponsored by Southern Methodist University (where I teach and he attends). Back in our suburban Dallas home, his American father grilled steaks on the patio and I wondered how long it would take him to get bored with suburban Texas life after life in Copenhagen. Read more

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2010-06-07T11:37:31+00:00

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Nared and Filfin Contemplate the Mind of God

Last updated on: June 7, 2010 at 11:37 am By Guest Contributor

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One of my favorite story-tellers, Mark Yaconelli, shares a remarkable conversation between his daughter's two homemade dolls about God. See if it doesn't set you off on some deep theological thinking today ... Read more

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2010-06-05T18:59:54+00:00

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Life-Positive and The Politics of the Middle

Last updated on: June 5, 2010 at 6:59 pm By Jason Derr

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My wife and I began a conversation the other day evaluating the ways in which we express ourselves as ‘liberal’ or ‘progressive’ people of faith, and the startling ways in which we find ourselves becoming more conservative with age. We wondered if this was because with age we have become more contemplative and have lost some of our youthful passion or if we have slipped into the sin of complacency. My wife Erin – former professional chef, lover of Hebrew... Read more

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2010-06-04T10:52:35+00:00

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Bible, Torah & Koran as Art

Last updated on: June 4, 2010 at 10:52 am By Guest Contributor

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"I’m making an American Flag. A big one. Twenty-four feet by thirteen feet. I’m making it out of Bibles and Bibles with Apocrypha, Korans and Talmuds and Torahs, Sutras and Vedic Scriptures, Books of Mormon and New Age texts." Artist and pastor Tim Mooney describes his ambitious sacred art installation project and how you can help... Read more

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2010-06-03T12:00:51+00:00

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Our God is a Chaotic God

Last updated on: June 3, 2010 at 12:00 pm By Benjamin Chicka

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What if there really was nothing before the first things in the universe? No God preceded creation. Must atheistic conclusions necessarily follow? Not according to some arguing that God and the initial chaos of the early universe could have existed together in a state of co-dependency. Read more

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