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2015-03-10T10:03:29-07:00

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GODSTUFF: Heretic, Shmeretic. Love Wins.

Last updated on: March 10, 2015 at 10:03 am By Cathleen Falsani

Rob Bell is a heretic. And so are you. But that’s the good news. It’s also part of the message of Bell’s new book, Love Wins: A Book about Heaven, Hell and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived, in which Bell, 40, pastor of 10,000-strong Mars Hill church in Grandville, Mich., reexamines Christianity’s traditional understanding of life, salvation and what happens after we die. The book, which will be released by Harper One on Tuesday, drew the ire... Read more

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2011-03-13T22:30:57-07:00

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Abolition of the Death Penalty? What do you think?

Last updated on: March 13, 2011 at 10:30 pm By Cathleen Falsani

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Polling the Room

2011-03-13T22:10:54-07:00

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GODSTUFF: Will people of faith support abolition of the Death Penalty?

Last updated on: March 13, 2011 at 10:10 pm By Cathleen Falsani

Religious leaders long have been at the forefront of the death penalty abolitionist movement in Illinois and nationwide. But there has been an ongoing disconnect between faith leaders’ activism against capital punishment and the opinions of their flocks. Read more

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2011-03-08T19:31:09-07:00

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GODSTUFF: “The Adjustment Bureau” asks whether it’s possible to change God’s mind

Last updated on: March 8, 2011 at 7:31 pm By Cathleen Falsani

The Chairman -- i.e., God -- has written the stories of our lives and the Big Story of the world. God knows how the story begins and ends. But is that story set in stone? If God is all-powerful and all-knowing, is there anything that happens in our lives that isn't part of God's will and design? Read more

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2011-03-03T14:18:14-07:00

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GODSTUFF: “The Sunset Limited” ~ Big ideas in a small film

Last updated on: March 3, 2011 at 2:18 pm By Cathleen Falsani

Art is maddeningly dynamic. It does not, and will not, mean the same thing to one person as it does to another. Depending on our individual lenses, histories, predilections and aversions, for interpretation each of us experiences a works of art in just that way: individually, personally, uniquely. There’s no finer example of this than the recent HBO film “The Sunset Limited,” which continues to air regularly on the cable channel. It is simple in its parts — more like... Read more

2011-03-01T03:21:29-07:00

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GODSTUFF: Homosexuality on Christian college campus

Last updated on: March 1, 2011 at 3:21 am By Cathleen Falsani

Late last week, the provost of Belmont University in Nashville announced that the school officially had recognized its first gay student organization. The announcement came barely a month after the Christian school changed its anti-discrimination policy to include homosexuals, after a popular girls soccer coach was forced out last December because her lesbian partner was expecting a child. The gay student group had twice been turned down for official recognition. Belmont provost Thomas Burns said the change of mind reflected... Read more

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2011-02-18T12:07:41-07:00

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GODSTUFF: Stuff we don’t want, stuff they don’t need?

Last updated on: February 18, 2011 at 12:07 pm By Cathleen Falsani

On a recent family trip to Africa, spotting locals wearing T-shirts and baseball caps bearing obvious American brands or slogans became something of a parlor game — a way to pass long hours in the Land Rover driving from place to place, when we weren’t counting goats or looking for zebras. There was a rural farmer in a Redskins cap. A young woman, hips wrapped in a traditional cloth chitenge paired with a white T-shirt bearing the campaign slogan of... Read more

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2011-02-15T14:50:14-07:00

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GODSTUFF: Living Leviticus ~ Who could do it? Who would want to?

Last updated on: February 15, 2011 at 2:50 pm By Cathleen Falsani

It is entirely possible to be a church-going Christian for 40 years and never hear a sermon preached solely from the Book of Leviticus. Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew scriptures (i.e. the “Old Testament) that contains the laws, large and in minutiae, that God gave to the Israelites. Most people might be familiar with its odd edicts against, for instance, eating lobster or shaving your sideburns, and laws ordering menstruating women to sit in a tent apart... Read more

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2011-02-10T02:00:13-07:00

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GODSTUFF: iConfess (Getting theologically clean in the Church of Apple)

Last updated on: February 10, 2011 at 2:00 am By Cathleen Falsani

Theologians, psychologists and sociologists agree about the benefits — spiritual, emotional and communal — of confession. Revealing our sins and missteps to another person, whether in writing or in person, helps alleviate guilt and its accompanying anxieties, leading to happier, healthier living. Most recently, in what appears to be an unprecedented move, the Vatican gave its imprimatur to a thoroughly modern take on the ancient act of confession when one of its American bishops gave the thumbs up to “Confession:... Read more

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2011-02-08T13:15:52-07:00

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GODSTUFF: “The Rite.” Something to believe in?

Last updated on: February 8, 2011 at 1:15 pm By Cathleen Falsani

There are two equal and opposite errors into which the human race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight. — C.S. Lewis in “The Screwtape Letters“ Sir Anthony Hopkins, with his eerily cold, Hannibal Lecter stare and commanding British accent, could... Read more

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