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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One of my favorite websites to visit when I’m surfing is Dave Walker’s cartoonchurch.com. Walker is British (so far as I can tell), Anglican (again, so far as I can tell), and has a keen eye for all sorts of everyday details about being part of a religious community. Often his drawings cut at the [...]

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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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