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While driving to and from Houston this weekend, I listened to Eugene Peterson’s lecture on the Christian use of Scripture, “Eat this Book.” Peterson argues for a recovery of the sovereignty of God in our approach to scripture, rejecting the … Continue reading →

Bruce Bjork of the Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches says: We are appalled by the idea that progressives and Christians don’t belong in the same sentence. We need not to limit moral speech but to expand it. The Religious Right … Continue reading →

Fast Company has a piece about Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book. I’ve read Tipping Point, but haven’t gotten Blink yet. Here’s how their article starts: “I really like that term ‘momentary autism,’ ” a woman says softly into the mike. She … Continue reading →

Dissent leaks out of the North.

Ali at Free Iraqi has a perceptive post on Islam and Democracy. Here’s the comment I left on his site. Ali said : What I’m trying to say is that no religion in its present form is compatible with democracy … Continue reading →

A powerful piece in the New Yorker discusses the way junior officers in particular are trying to make the Army a learning organization. One of the scholars they feature is Col. Leonard Wong, who I remember from a study he … Continue reading →

This interview with Christian Smith from Books and Culture highlights his recent research on American teens. Of his work, I’ve only read The Secular Revolution: Power, Interests, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life, a very interesting book. … Continue reading →

A United Methodist elder currently pastoring in another denomination reflects on the Beth Stroud case: Further, the message sounded out from the UMC after the Beth mess is this — you can’t be a practicing lesbian and be a United … Continue reading →

As I was putting my youngest daughter to bed tonight we were listening (as is our habit) to an episode of Adventures in Odyssey. In the story Nick, a worker at Whit’s End (a ice cream shop & hang out … Continue reading →

While on our post-Christmas trip this week I had opportunity to speak with the pastor of a church that has a million dollars in the bank and receives $14k a month in oil, gas & coal revenues. They’re surrounded by … Continue reading →