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Just When we Centralize… the UK …
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Scot McKnight
Did you see this report in the NYTimes? The UK is beginning to decentralize its National Health Service … just as the USA is passing legislation to make health care better and cheaper by centralizing. Here are a few clips: Practical details of the plan are still sketchy. But its aim is clear: to shift…
Our Common Prayerbook 25 – 1
By
Scot McKnight
Prayer is soul-ish wandering. It wanders from who we are and what we have done and what life is like into the presence of God where it again wanders into who God is and what God is like and what God has done and what God can do and what God will do, and then…
Should Pollsters Go to Seminary? (RJS)
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Jesus Creed Admin
Pete Enns has a new article up at the Huffington Post: Evolution and Religion: Why Religion Pollsters Should Go to Seminary First. Ignore the forum (especially the ads on the sidebar) and read the article – this is an interesting question. Just a paragraph here, condensed, to get a taste. Commenting on a poll commissioned…
Which Reminds Me
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Scot McKnight
In chapter four of Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (Everyman’s Library) , we read the wonderful tale of Tom trading for tickets outside church on a Sunday morning. Before the chapter is over we discover those tickets were good for a prize, and what made the scene prickly fun was that a guest…
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