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“Actually, the Bible no longer remains just what it was…. It is very important that we keep this in mind and radically reflect on it. Many members of congregations no longer do so, … they hold to the conviction that the Scripture is totally God’s word, inerrant, and their criticism of it is sacrilegious. [...]

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There are some pretty awful prayers out there. The Sinner’s Prayer is an awful prayer for all sorts of reasons that have been well rehearsed, not least by evangelicals, particularly the version where, as the climax to a manna-back guaranteed four-part plan of salvation, you say it on the Naughty Step (otherwise known as [...]

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Why are we here?
We are not here to “do a bunk” from the world.
We are not here to “get in touch with our ‘inner selves’”.
We are not here to “recharge our batteries”.
And God help us if we are here to “make a deal” with God:
“Lord, if you do this for me, then I’ll do that [...]

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Near the end of his time at Notre Dame, where he had become a member at Broadway United Methodist Church, Hauerwas, with his family, spent six months teaching in England. In South Bend Hauerwas always took his son Adam with him to worship. So, in London …
“We thought we should go to a [...]

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Thanks to Darryl Dash

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…. I certainly count myself a Christian. Or, more accurately, I have friends who count me as a Christian. I have, moreover, tried to live a life I hope is unintelligible if the God we Christians worship does not exist.
I believe what I write, or rather, by writing I learn to believe. [...]

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The “idolatry of the actual” is the target of Our Shadowed Present: Modernism, Postmodernism and History (2003) by J.C.D. Clark, Hall Distinguished Professor of British History at the University of Kansas (who has also taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and the University of Chicago). Clark diagnoses and treats the chronic intellectual illness of “presentism”, the [...]

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Bishop Alan gives us an introduction to the Hungarian language. Who’d have thought that reading blogs could be so educational? And who would have guessed that the Church of England has Hungarian-speaking bishops? Now if only I could work out the difference between barásnak and baráshoz, I’m sure I’d be a better, more rounded, [...]

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Blogger Daryl Lang has caused quite a stir with his post “Hallowed Ground”. Daryl is a resident of New York and decided to examine just how sacred the ground of the proposed Muslim community centre can be considered. So he walked around taking photographs in its vicinity, and at other sites a similar distance from [...]

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Drinking water before meals helps dieting, according to a report on the BBC.
Scientists from Virginia found that slimmers can lose an average of 5lb extra if they drink two glasses of water three times a day before meals.
They tested the theory on 48 older adults, split into two groups, over 12 weeks.
While drinking water [...]

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More good stuff from Jay Vorhees, this time looking at the ‘ground zero mosque’ from the perspective of US history.
…the concerns raised about Muslim expansionism in recent weeks shouldn’t surprise us, for they are the extension of the John Birch Society raised concerns about the election of a Roman Catholic president during the [...]

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Jay Vorhees writes of his struggle with his weight. It’s hard not to admire a blogger who is prepared to be so vulnerable in his writing.
Last week I got a call from Bob Smietana, the religion reporter at the Tennessean. It seems like Bob is always calling looking for some sort of response on the [...]

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Mark Byron :: Having a sacred cow
It (ground zero) housed a number of key financial futures markets and a number of high-powered business offices, but it wasn’t a holy site to say the least. Unless money and international finance is your god.
It has become a memorial for the people who died there, but it is [...]

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I visited the Blue Planet Aquarium today with Mrs H, daughter number 2 and a young friend. It’s a great place to spend a couple of hours. The entry price is quite high, but if you find vouchers it can be made quite reasonable.
The main selling point of the place is a very large [...]

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Ben Myers on why you should be kind to theologians.

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Andrew Brown nails it.

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My friend Chris Shannahan has relaunched his blog. Go look at BelievingInTheCity. It’s good.

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Leafing through my The Hauerwas Reader earlier today to consult the essay on euthansaia for a book I’m reviewing, I came across a sheet of A5 on which was printed this excerpt from a November 2001 interview. I must have downloaded it from some blog, when and where I can’t remember. Hauerwas is [...]

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“Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot: the best remedy is to stomp on them.”
“It is claimed that arguments against Christianity arise from doubt. This is a complete misunderstanding. The arguments against Christianity arise out of rebellion, out of reluctance to obey. The battle against objections is but shadow-boxing, because [...]

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