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“Short on sermonizing”

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Lansing State Journal- “Traditions’ service reaches out to seniors”
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New Low Reached With ‘Erotic Church Service’

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Ruth Gledhill of The Times of London provides the story and commentary at her religion blog “Articles of Faith”:
A female dancer dances in a skin coloured stocking in the middle of the church in front of the altar. She crawls about on the floor and wraps herself in a hanging down white cloth. Is this [...]

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The Impact of Youth Culture on the Contemporary Church

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Interesting article at Out of Ur- “How Teenagers Transformed the Church (Part 1)”
UPDATE: Part 2 now available
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Barna Study Reveals American Christians No Different

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

From the Christian Post:
Among 20 lifestyle elements, the most common activity Americans engage in over the course of a typical month is recycling some used product or material. The survey showed that 74 percent of Americans have recycled in the past month. Also, nearly half said they have helped a poor or homeless person in [...]

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“…(M)ost surely they believe in sports.”

Thursday, February 1, 2007

Some perceptive observations in this Dallas Morning News article “Churches Use Super Bowl Sunday to Reach New People”:
William Baker, a retired University of Maine professor who has written two books about sports and religion, says the interplay between the two dates back to ancient times, and that in modern-day America, evangelical Christians make the most [...]

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