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2013-03-01T10:21:31-07:00

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Getting Real with God Down Deep

Last updated on: March 1, 2013 at 10:21 am   By David Swartz

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What happens when, as Christians, our lives take serious hits? I mean “four torpedoes at the waterline” kind of hit. Read more

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2013-02-28T15:49:11-07:00

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Women are Natural Change-Agents

Last updated on: February 28, 2013 at 3:49 pm   By Guest Contributor

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It will take more than just laws to stop people taking advantage of those who have less power, and that is why we must all continue to do something - whether to stop trafficking or to promote interreligious understanding. Read more

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2013-02-28T14:34:45-07:00

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Finding God in the Dark: A Q&A with Ted Kluck and Ronnie Martin

Last updated on: February 28, 2013 at 2:34 pm   By Guest Contributor

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Writer Ted Kluck’s world was turned upside down after experiencing a failed adoption, where he found himself propelled into a year of doubt and disillusionment. Recording artist Ronnie Martin struggled with identity and idolatry issues before the unexpected death of his father. In a new book out this month called Finding God in the Dark: Faith, Disappointment, and the Struggle to Believe, these two young Christian artists share their stories and insights about finding God’s presence in the midst of heartache.... Read more

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2013-02-28T11:26:00-07:00

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C.S. Lewis, A Life: A Q&A with Author Alister McGrath

Last updated on: February 28, 2013 at 11:26 am   By Deborah Arca

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In C.S. Lewis — A Life, Alister McGrath, prolific author and respected professor at King’s College of London, paints a definitive portrait of the life of popular fiction writer and atheist-turned-Christian C. S. Lewis. After thoroughly examining recently published Lewis correspondence, Alister challenges some of the previously held beliefs about the exact timing of Lewis’s shift from atheism to theism and then to Christianity. He paints a portrait of an eccentric thinker who became an inspiring, though reluctant, prophet for... Read more

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2013-02-18T12:04:52-07:00

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Abolitionist Mamas: A Q&A with Shayne Moore and Kim McOwen Yim

Last updated on: February 18, 2013 at 12:04 pm   By Deborah Arca

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This month at the Patheos Book Club, we’re pleased to be featuring an important new book, Refuse to Do Nothing: Finding Your Power to Abolish Modern-Day Slavery, by Shayne Moore and Kimberly McOwen Yim. We had a chance to ask these two women — also known as the Abolitionist Mamas — some questions about the reality of modern-day slavery, how they got involved in this cause, and what we can all do to help end it. (Join the authors for... Read more

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2013-02-01T11:55:09-07:00

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Soul Friends: A Review of Love & Salt

Last updated on: February 1, 2013 at 11:55 am   By Elizabeth Nordquist

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A Review of Love & Salt: A Spiritual Friendship Shared in Letters By Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith As we take the turn into Lent very soon, we are blessed to be given a window into a spiritual friendship that uses the age-old practice of letter writing as a mode of mutual spiritual direction. These two young women, each an accomplished writer and reader, choose as a Lenten discipline to write to each other every day of Lent, for... Read more

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2013-02-01T14:29:50-07:00

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Love & Salt: A Q&A with Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith

Last updated on: February 1, 2013 at 2:29 pm   By Deborah Arca

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In our hyper-digital age of shorter and shorter missives communicated through fewer and fewer strokes, a friendship sustained and deepened through long, handwritten letters is an extraordinary act of love and faith. Love & Salt: A Spiritual Friendship in Letters, is an achingly beautiful new book chronicling the friendship between two young Catholic women over a five year span, as they make sense of their daily lives — marriage, career, Church, pregnancy, motherhood, and tragic loss — through the lens... Read more

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2013-02-01T15:10:15-07:00

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A Contagious Christ: A Review of Follow Me

Last updated on: February 1, 2013 at 3:10 pm   By David Swartz

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One of the things I loved most about doing talk radio centered around two things involving my guests. First, I gave them lots of space; I worked in a format where I could give them at least a half hour (25 minutes in radio land) and often an hour for someone addressing a heavyweight topic. Second, I loved the idea that I could have long conversations with people who, outside of radio, I’d never get close enough to sneeze at.... Read more

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2013-02-01T15:12:11-07:00

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What Does It Mean to Really Follow Jesus? A Video Q&A with David Platt

Last updated on: February 1, 2013 at 3:12 pm   By Deborah Arca

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“I’m convinced that there are scores of people here and around the world who culturally identify themselves as Christians who are biblically not followers of Christ.” David Platt, pastor and author of the New York Times best-selling book Radical: Taking Your Faith Back from the American Dream, is at it again, delivering another hard message for the Evangelical church in his new book, Follow Me: A Call to Die, A Call to Live. While Radical challenged Christians to “die to self,” Follow... Read more

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2013-02-05T13:56:10-07:00

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The Passionate Jesus: Read An Excerpt

Last updated on: February 5, 2013 at 1:56 pm   By Guest Contributor

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By the Rev. Peter Wallace An Excerpt from The Passionate Jesus: What We Can Learn from Jesus about Love, Fear, Grief, Joy and Living Authentically (SkyLight Paths Publishing) One of my most beloved life rituals is to carve a few days out of my schedule and take off to St. Simons Island, Georgia, for a creative retreat. I started doing this about twenty years ago when friends invited me to stay with them at a cottage they owned on East Beach.... Read more

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