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In Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley for a combination vacation and writing retreat, I devoted the first full day (Saturday) to the vacation part. To counter the general suckiness of taveling alone, I decided to keep...
Can Changing Scenery Solve Your Problems?
Have you ever tried a geographical cure for your problems? Just move to a new city and leave your problems in the old one. The difficulties you've had and the challenges you've faced in the past are the fault of the...
4 Suggestions to Help Ministers of the Future
Kenda Creasy Dean is a United Methodist ordained elder and professor of youth, church and culture at Princeton Theological Seminary and the author of "Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the...
EthicsDaily.com Sponsors Faith Event During Democratic National Convention
Why would EthicsDaily.com sponsor an event on faith and immigration during the Democratic National Convention? The answer – simply put – is to offer a moral witness of faith leaders to political leaders about the...
Artful dodgers
Having recently seen a nice production of "Oliver!", it's not surprising that I'd think of some busy neighbors of mine as artful dodgers: thieves to the core, but with a certain charm and cuteness about them. The...
“The Dark Knight Rises”
Dorothy Allison wrote, "Things come apart so easily when they are held together by lies." "The Dark Knight Rises" illustrates this point well. It is eight years since the ending of "The Dark Knight." Gotham City is in...
A Good Political Read for Professional and Lay Theologians
If theology has more to accomplish than opening up the truth of the Scripture, it probably has to do with how the truth of the Scriptures and other sources of revelation (for example, nature, tradition, experience,...
People of Faith Urged to Challenge Big Pharmacy Over AIDS Drugs
People dying from AIDS-related illnesses have waited long enough for a response from a pharmaceutical industry dragging its feet in search of profits, participants meeting in advance of AIDS 2012 were told. David...
The Secret of Life
A sermon delivered by Keith D. Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo., on July 22, 2012 II Samuel 7:1-14a Here’s the context for today’s reading: King David has succeeded beyond anyone’s wildest...
Up Close and Personal
A sermon delivered by Robert Browning, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Frankfort, Ky., on July 22, 2012. Mark 5:21-43 She looked to be about eight years old and was playing on the beach with her family. She was having a...
What Did Your Father Teach You?
A sermon delivered by Robert F. Browning, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Frankfort, Ky., on June 17, 2012. John 15:9-17 He taught me how to tie a fishing hook onto a line, water ski, grill a steak and play Rook. He...
Lulled to Lukewarm
A sermon delivered by Howard Batson, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Amarillo, Tx., on July 22, 2012. Acts 20:6-12 What makes you sleepy? A warm bath? A big meal? A Sunday afternoon in the recliner with a one-sided...
Compassion is Hard Work
A sermon delivered by Randy Hyde, Pastor, Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, Little Rock, Ark., on July 22, 2012. Psalm 23; Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 You may have thought of this before, but I admit to you that if it has ever...
How Inappropriate!
A sermon delivered by David Hughes, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, Nc., on July 15, 2012. 2 Samuel 6:1-23; Psalm 24 An older lady who had no use for contemporary worship was complaining to a friend about...
Power ¦in Weakness?
A sermon delivered by David Hughes, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, Nc., on July 8, 2012. 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 I have a power fantasy. In my fantasy, I have the build of Arnold Schwarzenegger, the looks...
Can We Agree There’s More to Life?
"Religion is a fairytale," someone scribbled on a wall in pink sidewalk chalk outside Carmichael's Bookstore on Bardstown Road. A few days later someone smudged out the word "Religion." It wasn't me. Even if I am a...
Episcopal Church Adapts to Culture, Answers Critics
Miracles do happen. They are happening recently in the media world on the church front. Critics are responding to recent attacks on the Episcopal Church. Inspired by reports of the obvious, that that church body has...
Skype Interview: Shane Claiborne on “Dying by the Sword”
Colorado, Bulgaria, Afghanistan, Iraq – just a few of the places mentioned by Shane Claiborne as having been tagged with recent violence. Claiborne – activist, author and founder of The Simple Way community – spoke...
Hot wheat from Hazor
Archaeologists are debating the significance of recent finds in Hazor (pronounced HOT-soar), an ancient Canaanite city in upper Galilee that later became an Israelite stronghold. The dig in Hazor, 2009.Of course, if...
Faith Without Works Kills
What shall we make of those who beseech the divine, but evade their own earthly responsibility? Faith without works is dead. So reads The Letter of James, a New Testament book that challenges the idea that authentic...
Your Favorite Hymn May Be “Faith’s Review.” Really.
While attending a breakout session during the Oasis music and worship conference sponsored by the CampbellUniversityDivinitySchool, I learned that my all-time favorite hymn was not originally titled "Amazing Grace." It...