Jan Edmiston is a pastor in the Washington DC area. She blogs with a probing mind and a heart for doing authentic ministry in the 21st century. Her blog is called A Church for Starving Artists, and I find myself going there regularly to learn from her. She challenges me, and us, with posts (like [...]

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Here’s something I found at the website of another Presbyterian blogger: Denis Hancock’s The Reformed Angler. The LA Times published an Op Ed a few days ago from Stephen Prothero, the chair of the Religious Studies department at Boston University. Its worth a read…
http://www.latimes.com/…/la-oe-prothero14mar14,1,3102398.story
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Here’s the key quote:
ALTHOUGH THE 110th [...]

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This is the time of year, along with Lent/Easter, that various aspects of Christianity get a lot of media coverage. You’ll see cover stories of the major news periodicals–US News ( “The Real Jesus ” ), Time, Newsweek ( “How Jewish Family Values Shaped Christianity” –devoted to Mary, or the Nativity, or something related to [...]

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Here’s an interesting piece of news from RNS.
Staying in bed outranks sitting in pews, survey says
by Adelle M. Banks
Religion News Service
WASHINGTON — A good night’s sleep ranks far above attending church as a favorite activity, a nationwide poll shows.
The Barna Group asked more than 1,000 adults to say how much they looked [...]

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News today that Harvard is bringing back religion courses to its undergraduate curriculum:
Harvard University, founded 370 years ago to train Puritan ministers, should again require all undergraduates to study religion, along with U.S. history and ethics, a faculty committee is recommending.
The surprisingly bold recommendations come after years of rancorous internal debate over what courses should [...]

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