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2010-10-07T16:01:08+00:00

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Progressive Christianity: A Few Questions with Jim Burklo

Last updated on: October 7, 2010 at 4:01 pm By Guest Contributor

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What is Progressive Christianity and where did it come from? Associate Dean of Religious life and pastor Jim Burklo offers some thoughts. Read more

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2010-10-06T15:15:37+00:00

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The Caffeinated Riots: The Reverse Perversion of Teenage Suicides

Last updated on: October 6, 2010 at 3:15 pm By George Elerick

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When young teenagers are driven to kill themselves, the bullies are not the only one's at fault, we are too. And when they kill themselves, they are killing a piece of humanity. When we allow the death of innocent teenagers to take place, we support the very perversion we say we're against. We perpetuate the reverse perversion of the Big Other. We can't idylly sit by and talk about loving our neighbour any longer. Read more

2010-10-05T15:29:43+00:00

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Blessed Are The Socially Awkward: A Review of “The Social Network”

Last updated on: October 5, 2010 at 3:29 pm By J. Ryan Parker

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"The truth behind the movie "The Social Network" is that we are social beings and that we crave networks, be they digital or real." Read Pop Theology blogger Ryan Parker's review of this fall's smash hit about the creator of Facebook. Read more

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2010-10-05T11:28:15+00:00

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Does Prayer Really Make A Difference?

Last updated on: October 5, 2010 at 11:28 am By Deborah Arca

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"I believe that God intervenes in our world at times, but I remain convinced that it is our mission to partner our works with the faith we exhibit during prayer." Read this, and other responses from different faith traditions, on the efficacy of prayer from our new What Do I Really Believe Series? Read more

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2010-10-04T12:03:18+00:00

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The Phallic Fetish Of Prayer

Last updated on: October 4, 2010 at 12:03 pm By George Elerick

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To help us better understand what has happened to prayer, I think we have to listen in to a psychoanalyst by the name of Jacques Lacan. When a child is in its predominant learning stage it looks to the mother as the sole nurturer of its reality. The role of the mother cannot be underscored here. The child believes that the mother is pulled away by outside desires, because this is an unknown element, psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan refers to this imaginary object as the Phallus. Which itself is an imaginary object. Read more

2010-10-03T15:40:44+00:00

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“An Attitude of Gratitude?” Lectionary Reflection on the 10 Lepers: Luke 17:11-19

Last updated on: October 3, 2010 at 3:40 pm By Alyce McKenzie

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A friend of mine who is a pastor in Dallas was once teaching Sunday School with a group of children. They were reading this story of the ten lepers. “What do you think about this story?” she asked after she had read it to them. One little girl answered, “Jesus must have been so happy that somebody thanked him!” Read more

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2010-10-01T10:03:40+00:00

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The Real Surprise in the Pew Forum Survey

Last updated on: October 1, 2010 at 10:03 am By Guest Contributor

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"The surprise in the recent Pew Survey isn't how little people know about their own religion and the religions of others around them, but that they know anything at all." Professor Robert Hunt considers the implications of the U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey results. Read more

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2010-09-30T16:31:56+00:00

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The Eddie Long Case and What’s Not Being Said

Last updated on: September 30, 2010 at 4:31 pm By Guest Contributor

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"The charges against Long are less about homosexuality, the defensiveness of his congregation, the theology he espouses, or the age and gender of the accusers. The case is about the possible abuse of clerical power." Professor Monica Coleman on this critical opportunity to raise all of our consciousnesses about clergy sexual misconduct. Read more

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2010-09-30T15:05:43+00:00

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Being a Pastor is a Weird Job

Last updated on: September 30, 2010 at 3:05 pm By Guest Contributor

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"Being a pastor is a weird job. I love the freedom to read, plan worship, talk with interesting people, and sit with scripture and the tradition. But sometimes I just have to laugh at myself and at any expectation I have or someone else might have that I can come up with a spiritual word or reflection." Emerging church pastor Courtney Pinkerton on a day in the life... Read more

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2010-09-30T09:45:32+00:00

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Lament and Resolve for Victims of Hate Crimes

Last updated on: September 30, 2010 at 9:45 am By Carl Gregg

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On September 22, Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old college freshman at Rutgers University in New Jersey, jumped from the George Washington Brudge in what the New York Times is calling an “apparent suicide.” Clementi’s 18-year-old roommate and another 18-year-old classmate have been charged with illegally taping and broadcasting video of Clementi in an intimate encounter with another man. Clementi was a promising young violinist, and for the perpetrators of this hate crime, “The most serious charges carry a maximum sentence of five years.” Three... Read more

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