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What Are You Doing for Lent?
By
Jana Riess
Well, it’s Fat Tuesday, and amidst all the consumption of Paczki and Pancakes and such, I need to decide today what I’m doing for Lent. Which — gulp — starts tomorrow. And I want your help. In the past, I’ve tried the “giving up” strategy. I’ve given up sweets, television, meat, makeup, and spending money…
What’s the Least I Can Believe and Still Be a Christian?
By
Jana Riess
Recently on WJK Radio, I had the pleasure of co-interviewing Martin Thielen, author of the new book What’s the Least I Can Believe and Still Be a Christian? The book is taking off as a group study guide for churches. People want to know whether they can be Christians and believe in evolution (Thielen says…
To Tweet or Not to Tweet?
By
Jana Riess
As many of you know, I am a daily Twitter person, tweeting out a chapter of the Bible every day with humorous — okay, sometimes snarky — commentary. For the last year and a half I’ve been deeply interested in Twitter’s power to communicate, if we can only cut past all the noise of people…
Religion and Bob Dylan
By
Jana Riess
The Gospel According to Bob Dylan? Well, why not? Author Michael J. Gilmour sits down to explain why “Bobheads” continue to find spiritual meaning in Bob Dylan’s music almost 50 years after Dylan’s debut album was released. –JKR So, why a book about the spiritual significance of Bob Dylan? I often ask myself the same…
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