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The New York Times this week has run a series of interesting articles by Diana B. Hendriques about the ever decreasing size of the wall between church and state in a variety of matters. This particular blog will try to digest the evidence she presents. Here first are links to several of the articleshttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/business/08religious.html?pagewanted=6&_r=1&th&emc=th http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/09/business/09religious.html?th&emc=th…

Marian Fisher was only thirteen. She had a lot to live for, and probably many years yet to live. Yesterday she was buried in a cold steady rain in a little farm graveyard near Georgetown Pennsylvania. When Marian went to her little Amish school last Monday morning she had no idea what she would face,…

Ron Luce is worried. And if Ron Luce is worried, we should be too. Ron runs an organization called Teen Mania which puts on camps, concerts and various and sundry other sorts of events for youth. He claims that in the last fifteen years 2 million youth have attended his events, the usual formula for…

Post-Modernism is an odd movement of our time. As it affects theological reflection it has both its good and bad aspects. The good news is it takes less atomistic approaches to the Bible. For example, it is concerned with canonical theology as a whole, Biblical theology as whole. These are not bad things in themselves.…

The Holy Man and the Lord A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one dayand said, “Lord, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like.”The Lord led the holy man to two doors. He opened one of the doors andthe holy man looked in. In the middle of the…

James Coleman is professor of African American literature at my alma mater UNC-Chapel Hill (go Tar Heels!). He is a thought provoking writer and speaker and one of his central subjects is the sacred and the spiritual in the African American community. His recent work “Faithful Vision” Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in…

These are troubling times. Chaucer once queried “If gold rusts, what then will iron do?” and he was worred about ministers. So am I. I train them and deal with them day in and day out. Its not just that pornography has over 400,000 of its own websites, the number one subject matter available on…

Conservative Christian organizers are getting together again, led by James Dobson of Focus on the Family fame. They are worried. They sense a lot of disaffection at the grassroots level amongst those who voted Republican two years ago. Here is a link to the article by David Kilpatrick—http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/us/politics/25conserve.html?th&emc=th They should indeed be worried. The war…

O.K. let me see if I understand this. NBC has standards. It will broadcast ‘universal’ religious values, but nothing sectarian, nothing that supports or promotes a particular denomination or religion. (And what precisely would those values be?) On this basis, NBC is busily editing and then broadcasting Veggie Tales, perhaps one of the most creative…

In the wake of the ‘revisionist history’ nonsense about Constantine being the great establisher of Christian orthodoxy and suppressor of heterodoxy (which it is a stretch to even call a half truth), it is refreshing to read the works of scholars who actually know the primary sources when it comes to Constantine. One such person…
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