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No More “Inactive” Members and a 9/17 Day of Service? This Week’s Mormon News & Commentary
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Jana Riess
Thoughts on four Mormon items in the news this week: 1) When was the last time you heard the terms “inactive Mormon” or “less active Mormon”? Over at Wheat and Tares, there’s an interesting post about a change brewing in the Church’s PR: these terms are apparently being phased out. I was surprised, and heartened,…
Revisiting My September 11 Sermon
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Jana Riess
This afternoon I dug into my computer files and found this old sermon that I gave on September 16, 2001, the Sunday after the World Trade Center and Pentagon were attacked. It was surreal to read it again a decade later. Some elements of that week I had forgotten entirely–I had no memory of the…
Palmer Chinchen on Why He Hates Regret
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Jana Riess
Here’s a guest blog post from activist Palmer Chinchen, author of the new book God Can’t Sleep. Here’s what Publishers Weekly had to say about it: GOD CAN’T SLEEP: Waiting for Daylight on Life’s Dark Nights Palmer Chinchen. David C. Cook, $14.99 trade paper (240p) A former missionary kid in Liberia and now pastor in…
The Serpent Beguiled Me, and I Did Tweet: A Twible Presentation
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Jana Riess
Here’s a 12-minute talk I gave last month about the Twible project, with some of my favorite tweets from the Old Testament. Hope you enjoy it.
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