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The middle of last week, I exchanged e-mails with a friend of mine who has what must be the worst job in America. He works for Lehman Brothers. I hadn’t heard from him in several weeks, and given the news of the last several days, I wanted to find out how he was doing. He…

How does Barack Obama plan to woo voters of faith? David Gibson found out: Obama’s two top lieutenants in faith outreach came out to address dozens of reporters at the annual Religion Newswriters Association conference in Washington late this afternoon to pitch the campaign’s new Faith, Family and Values Tour, which will launch next week…

That’s the bemused headline of this well-thought-out argument from the editor of First Things, Joseph Bottum. A snip: Do they think this is a debate they’re actually going to win? Do they imagine the Catholic theologians of America–from Avery Cardinal Dulles all the way to Sister Sara Butler–are suddenly going to whack their heads and…

Most of the people in the pews — and the people in the pulpit, for that matter — know this inconvenient truth: a lot of sermons are dull. But the guy in this story, from the Boston Globe, thinks he has the solution: ‘Most preaching is boring.” There. He said it. In front of 30…
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