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A Glenn Beck Haiku / Contest Can Be Cathartic! / Poetic Justice
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Jana Riess
Fun, fun! The Religion News Service blog is reporting that representatives of Jewish Funds for Justice have received over 1,000 entries so far in their Glenn Beck haiku contest.They’re particularly interested in people’s haiku comebacks to Beck’s controversial statements in March about social justice churches: “I beg you, look for the words ‘social justice’ or…
Why Are Mormon Church Meetings So Dull?
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Jana Riess
A couple of years ago I read the memoir Sundays in America by Suzanne Strempek Shea, a Massachusetts novelist. The author’s project was to attend a different religious service every weekend and write about her initial impressions. I felt that it was unfair to judge a faith tradition based on a single snapshot, when so…
King David’s Impressive Resumé: Five Major Accomplishments as King (2 Samuel 4-10)
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Jana Riess
You probably know that next week I’m going to rag on David for little things like adultery, murder, bad parenting and the like. I don’t want to be a Debbie Downer all the time, though, so I thought I’d devote this week’s Twible to some of the highlights of David’s resumé as king. David wrote…
There Be Witches in YA! A Review of “Beautiful Creatures”
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Jana Riess
You’ve probably noticed that I love YA and read far too much of it, but people find out about my passion and then they keep recommending novels. . . . Darn you, people! And darn you, Kevin Stanford, for recommending Beautiful Creatures, which kept me up late two nights running. Beautiful Creatures is set in…
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