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November 20, 2009

Friday's News & Ideas

  • Obama and bishops on collision course
  • Canterbury on Anglicans and Catholics
  • What are atheists scared of?
  • Confidence in leaders
  • A sign in Indiana
  • The promise of purple
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November 19, 2009

Thursday's News & Ideas

  • Be the good news
  • Oversight for Notre Dame?
  • ELCA split
  • ‘The Road’ to Christian outreach
  • Health care and complex moral choices
  • Doctors who write
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November 19, 2009

Matthew Phillips: Content or Communion?

Why shouldn’t we just download the best sermon available at iTunes for our Sunday worship?

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November 19, 2009

Nick Liao: Strength in an immigrant church

Members of the “silent exodus,” the second-generation departure from immigrant churches, are coming back.

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November 18, 2009

Jason Byassee: Tell me a story

Is any task more important to leadership than storytelling?

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November 18, 2009

Wednesday's News & Ideas

  • Canterbury on economics
  • PCUSA looks at leadership needs
  • Technology trade-offs
  • Enough with the OMGs
  • Double the rudeness
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November 17, 2009

Sarah Morice Brubaker: Does the cry room have a place in God’s house?

Maybe. But the default ought to be to have all God’s people in worship.

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November 17, 2009

Tuesday's News & Ideas

  • Recovering memory in El Salvador
  • ELCA budget cuts
  • Introverted leaders
  • Reining in a restive flock
  • Cormac McCarthy speaks
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November 17, 2009

John Schmalzbauer: southern gospel is a key to understanding our culture

It might not be cool to listen to southern gospel music in American academia. But to understand it is to understand the rest of our culture.

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In Culture | Music

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November 16, 2009

Graham Ford: The young and the restless

How do I work as a pastoral leader without slipping into despair? By asking whether and how every act aligns with God’s coming kingdom.

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November 16, 2009

Monday's News & Ideas

  • Young church
  • UMC job guarantee?
  • Nazis and Christmas
  • Rick Warren, name dropper
  • ‘Are you envious?’
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November 15, 2009

Tom Arthur: But I wasn't trained this way!

A first-year minister is expected to preach in a way that is totally at odds with how he was trained to preach. He asks a teacher of preaching what to do from here.

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November 13, 2009

Friday's News & Ideas

  • Canterbury sees chaotic future
  • Let eureka happen
  • Fixing charitable giving
  • Missing from the health care debate
  • Clergy privilege
  • Flight 1549: The video
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November 13, 2009

Norman Sandridge: Can great leaders have true friends?

The evidence from the ancient world is that it’s really, really hard. What has your experience been?

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November 12, 2009

Thursday's News & Ideas

  • Disappearing Christians in Iraq
  • Catholic Church in the public square
  • Look over someone’s shoulder
  • Clergy to congregations: ‘Get a grip’
  • Great Awakening?
  • Christianity and the crash
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