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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.
Sesame Streetwalkers: Peggy Orenstein on the Sexualization of the American Tween Girl
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Jana Riess
My daughter is not a pink-princess kind of girl, but we’ve had enough glimpses of fairy wings and pixie dust to make me interested in reading Cinderella Ate My Daughter, Peggy Orenstein’s incisive and funny exploration of the “new girlie-girl culture” she sees being marketed to girls at ever-younger ages. If you have a young…
Can Mormonism Make a Place for Same-Sex Marriage? Guest Blogger Brad Carmack Says Yes
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Jana Riess
“Hi, my name is Brad Carmack, calling on behalf of Protect Marriage Maine. Will you vote to maintain the traditional definition of marriage as between a man and a woman?” This was my phone pitch in October of 2009. Calling from Provo, Utah, I volunteered in the effort to persuade voters in Maine to oppose…
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