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Heritage
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By Fred Anderson
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Saturday, March 09, 2013 |
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Great events assume a life of their own. It is true with weddings. They start small with the excitement of an engagement and little by little the plans develop. So it is with an event planned for three days in May — “Faith, Freedom, Forgiveness: Religion and the Civil War, Emancipation and Reconciliation in Our Time.”
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Religious Herald
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By Jim White
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Saturday, March 09, 2013 |
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Tragically, many in the church are not quite sure what to make of Jesus’ words to forgive as we are forgiven. To see the truth of this, one has only to speak to hard-liners in a church fight. They lose objectivity, assign blame and want to hurt those who have hurt them. This is natural. Forgiveness is not.
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By Bailey Edwards Nelson
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Thursday, March 07, 2013 |
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“How does that make you feel?” As a Clinical Pastoral Education graduate, I’ve been asked that question more than a few times. It never set well with me. but it’s a fair enough question when one resigns a pastoral position after only 19 months. It doesn’t make the question any more welcome — or any easier to answer.
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By Lisa Cole Smith
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Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
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Memories are filled with “crossroads, zigzags and benchmarks” and a sculpture in southern Maryland allows me to walk that path inside my head in a tangible way, to exorcise the pain of difficult memories and be immersed in the blissful ones. Like a labyrinth, it teaches me to be fully present wherever I am.
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By Bill Wilson
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Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
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Two of the more important words for a congregation to ponder in the 21st century are resistant and resilient. Which of those two words better describe your congregation (and you) may well determine whether your congregation is viable in the next 10 to 20 years.
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By Alex Gallimore
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Monday, March 04, 2013 |
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There is a parallel between current American culture and the plight of the Ood, a peaceful species in the science fiction series Doctor Who. We used to be a people with a brilliant streak for unity and collaboration. But our thoughts and faith have been replaced by ideas we were never intended to uphold.
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By John Chandler
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Monday, March 04, 2013 |
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There is evidence that the North American evangelical conversation is centering on discipleship. While the 1980s focused on church growth, the 1990s on church health, and the 2000s on the church distributed, many believe we are well on the way to making discipleship the core conversation.
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By Jonathan Waits
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Monday, March 04, 2013 |
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If the words “faith” and “religion” are unclear, the words “science” and “evolution” are vastly more so. Attempting to speak of “science” as a monolithic institution is a foolhardy endeavor. That one word covers such a range of disciplines that greater clarity is essential to avoid saying something absurd.
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