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The Great Fire

August 14, 2010
By Judith Huang
The Great Fire

Break, blow, burn and make me new - John Donne, Holy Sonnet: Batter my heart “I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork...
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Plan A: Natural Increase, Not Genocide

July 10, 2010
By Judith Huang
Plan A: Natural Increase, Not Genocide

“Behold, I send an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. Beware of Him and obey His voice: do not provoke Him, for He will not pardon your transgressions for My name is in Him. But if you indeed obey His...
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Why I am Liberal

June 8, 2010
By Judith Huang
Why I am Liberal

Well, if you just look at this girl, you would quite easily come to the conclusion that she is liberal. I mean, come on. I wear flowers in my hair. I steal unnamed flowers from old churchyards and leave them at the feet of sleeping homeless people. I’m a writer and an artist and...
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A Review of The Great Emergence

March 27, 2010
By Jennifer Delurey

“When an overly institutionalized form of Christianity is, or ever has been, battered into pieces and opened to the air of the world around it, that faith-form has both itself spread and also enabled the spread of the young upstart that afflicted it”1 claims Phyllis Tickle in The Great Emergence. Believing that we are...
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A Clarification

March 5, 2010
By J. Joseph Porter
A Clarification

Based on discussion in the comments of the most recent edition of Nick’s discussion of baptism with me, I thought it would be worthwhile to clarify what exactly I take the role of the Church Fathers to be in understanding what the New Testament teaches about baptism.
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God and the Texas School Board

March 4, 2010
By Chelsea Carlson
God and the Texas School Board

Russell Shorto’s article “How Christian Were the Founders?”, a piece discussing the religious revisions being made to textbooks by the Texas school board, has hovered in the New York Times’ “Top 10 Most E-Mailed” article list for the last week or so. It is an investigative report of the Texas School Board’s curriculum decisions...
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Liturgical Musings

July 9, 2009
By Anne L. Goetz
Liturgical Musings

Recently, I’ve been away from my home church, and the options for Protestant churches to attend have been rather limited—in fact, there are only two readily available. The atmospheres of the two churches couldn’t be more different (one featured the hymns of Charles Wesley, the other a born-again Filipino pop star), but they share...
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