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How Much Can We Know About God?: Blog Tour Review of Ken Howard’s New Book “Paradoxy”
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Jana Riess
Earlier this week on Flunking Sainthood, a fellow Mormon was offended by an offhand remark I had made about some General Authorities not appearing to read widely. I was not surprised by someone taking offense, which is a regular occurrence on blogs, particularly ones about religion. But I was disappointed with the spiritual immaturity of…
Wiping Out Hunger in Our Generation: A Q&A with Bread for the World’s David Beckmann
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Jana Riess
Do you feel as overwhelmed as I do by statistics on world hunger? When I read about more than a billion people in dire poverty, it’s hard to muster any optimism that things will change. Children are starving. People are dying of preventable diseases. Yet those realities, while alarming, don’t do justice to the great…
How to Get Catholic Teens to Read the Bible, Step One: Make It Worth Reading
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Jana Riess
I’ve blogged before on the new sociological research about teen spirituality, the main crux of it being that many Protestant and Catholic teens have very little idea what they believe. According to research by Kenda Creasy Dean and Christian Smith, Catholic teens consistently rank the lowest in their knowledge of the Bible and core doctrines…
On Elder Marlin Jensen, Proposition 8 Apologies, and the Future of Mormonism
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Jana Riess
The Bloggernacle has been buzzing for several days with reports of an uplifting and wonderful pre-stake conference church meeting last Sunday, September 19, in the Oakland, California stake. Carol Lynn Pearson has blogged here at Flunking Sainthood before about some of the beautiful reconciliation efforts that have occurred in that stake since the debacle of…
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