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The Power of Corn Starch

Jamie Anne Richardson | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Fear, Church, Parenting, Schools, Children, Preschool, Parenting Fears, Corn Starch Dallas, Corn Starch, Parents News

hen I was growing up, my parents worried about me getting in a fistfight after school. Now parents have to worry about guns and knives in the school cafeteria.

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Cast Your Vote For A Queer Positive Church

Rev. Winnie Varghese | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Gay Rights, Religion and Sexuality, Christianity, Church, Religion News

St. Mark's is a progressive, welcoming (church speak for LGBTQI friendly) racially diverse, high energy, soulful congregation. In a time of decline, we are growing and growing fast.

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The Boy With A Broken Heart Is Born

Christian Piatt | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Church, Christianity, Prayer, Parenting, Children's Health, Christian Culture, Church Culture, Christian Community, Religion News

I wrote a story a while back about a family in our church back in Pueblo whose baby was due just after we left town. There was a good chance he'd need surgery in utero or immediately after being born.

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Why Are Millennials Leaving The Church?

Robert P. Jones, Ph.D. | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: College Students, Religiously Unaffiliated, Christianity, Church, Millennials, Religion in America, Catholic Church, Religion News

Pastors and priests seeking to fill their pews with young churchgoers have a tough task ahead. Many younger Millennials have already moved away from the religion in which they were raised, mostly joining the growing ranks of the religiously unaffiliated.

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Five Lessons The Church Could Learn From A Mother

Rev. Dr. Janet Edwards | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Christianity, Motherhood, Church, Mother's Day, Parentry, Motherhood Lessons, Church and Parenting, Parenting Lessons, Religion News

I realized that since the world is far from perfect, showing my children that what the world does offer is perfectly good enough was important. It also made me realize that being good enough as mother was a worthy goal for me.

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Redenhall Church And A Quiet Revolution

Katharine Quarmby | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Organised Religion, Redenhall Church, Church, Church of England, Quakers, Christianity, Religion News

I somehow think that God, whatever and whoever God is, would have liked the bareness of the service that evening -- just 10 people feeling their way through a kind of service with battered old hymn books and a CD player.

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Why Young Adults Forget The Church To Follow Jesus

Christian Piatt | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Postmodern Christianity, Young Christians, Christianity, Emerging Church, Faith, Church, Religion in America, Religion News

There is still a significant interest in, and pursuit of, a life following the path lived out and described by Jesus. We younger adults are starving for the very community we're wary of.

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California Pastor Held In Torture Of Boy Who Was Forced To Dig His Own Grave

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Video, Church, Child Abuse, California, Darryl Duane Jeter, Crime, Crime News, Lonny Lee Remmers, Nicholas James Craig, Lonny Remmers, Torture, Crime News

Authorities in California said they have uncovered a case of incredible cruelty involving a pastor and two members of his church. The three men are al...

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In Spite of It All.. A Glorious Easter

Wallace Best, Ph.D. | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Easter, Christianity, Church, Easter Sunday, Resurrection, Religion News

I knew in those moments it was not time to critique; it was time to celebrate. It was time to express my faith - untouched by the troubles of a deeply troubled church.

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A Resurrected Christianity?

Diana Butler Bass | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Emergent, Church, Christianity, Christianity in Crisis, Christianity and Politics, Andrew Sullivan, Mainline Christianity, Religion News

The crisis is real. Like Andrew Sullivan, I feel its sad and frustrating urgency. But I also know the hope of possibility, for every crisis bears the promise of something new.

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Build Multiracial Congregations: Heal Racism

The Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis, Ph.D. | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Multiracial Congregations, Multiracial Churches, Easter, Church, Martin Luther King, Race Relations, Trayvon Martin, Racism, Religion News

Racism and profiling can seem overwhelming. But when we gather rooted in our faith and connected to others who seek change, our spirits and our communities may take steps toward transformation.

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The Grandeur And Fanfare Of Malta's Good Friday Celebrations

Meg Pier | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Slidepollajax, Church, Good Friday, Parade, Tradition, Community, Catholic, Belonging, Easter, Celebration, Grand Harbor, Last Supper, Pageantry, Malta, Wirja, Vittoriosa, Zebbug, Lent, Religion News

Scanning the faces of the multitude assembled, I saw that their countenances were reverential rather than delighted, and deeply moved more than amused; some had tears in their eyes.

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Between Sundays: Holy Week And The Importance Of Weekday Christians

Rev. Emily C. Heath | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Christians, Easter, Worship, Church, Doubt, Suffering, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Good Friday, Rev. Emily C. Heath, Clergy, Holy Week, Palm Sunday, United Church of Christ, Lent, Maundy Thursday, Religion News

To me, the most comforting part of Holy Week is not the waving of triumphal palms on one Sunday morning, or the flowers and joyous hymns on the next. It's what happens in between.

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Four Reasons I Came Back To Church

Christian Piatt | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Religion, Church, Young Adults, Organized Religion, Faith and Culture, Leaving Church, Christianity, Christian Youth, Emergent Church, Religion News

I left the church as a teenager on less than good terms. My youth leader threw a Bible at me for persisting with my questions. Fortunately, I found a new community that represented something different.

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With God And Church On Their Side: Which God Is That?

Kevin Bermeister | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Catholic Church, New Testament, Church, Bible, God, Jesus, Rick Santorum, Christianity, Barack Obama, Religion and Politics, Religion in America, Religion News

Political leaders will continue to milk audiences, manufacturing untruths that, while inaccurate, serve as the driving force toward political victories. Setting the desire for political victories aside, this dazzling Godly rhetoric is ultimately diverting.

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A Conversation With Diana Butler Bass On 'Christianity After Religion'

Rev. Peter M. Wallace | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Christianity, Church, Diana Butler Bass, Great Awakening, Christianity After Religion, Religious Books, Video, Religion News

Diana delves into the roots of the crisis that churches of all kinds are facing, causes ranging from 9/11 and religious violence to the abuse scandals in the Catholic Church.

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Children in Church

Annmarie Kelly-Harbaugh | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Raising Children of Faith, Religion, Church, Catholicism, Cry Room, Children, Children in Church, Parents News

My three-year-old daughter began yelling the word "unicorn" over and over before communion. "Unicorn! Unicorn!" Needless to say, we finished out the service in the cry room.

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Will Trayvon Martin Be Mentioned In Your Congregation This Weekend?

Charles Howard | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Gun Violence, Worship, Christianity, Church, Clergy, Trayvon Martin, Trayvon Martin Shooting, Religion News

This weekend, thousands of houses of worship will gather to sing to, pray to, read about and preach about God. And yet, mention of Trayvon, of gun violence, racism and profiling, will often be absent.

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11 Reasons I Have Not Left Church

Paul Wallace | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Christianity, Church, Church Decline, Lent, Religion in America, Christianity in America, Religion News

As we all know, the American mainline is in free-fall. I myself am a sometimes angry and confused veteran of church conflict. Yet I remain.

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PHOTOS: Touring The Caribbean's Best Highways

Dwight Brown | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Casinos, Church, Caribbean, Shopping, Rainforest, Surfing, Tennis, Cuisine, Hotels, Golf, Highways, Ecology, Restaurants, Beaches, Museums, Nature, Vacation, Slidepollajax, Road Trips, Travel Blogs, Travel News

Sometimes Puerto Rico feels like a Caribbean island, other times more like America's 51st state.

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A Wild Goose Second Chance for Refugees From Politicized Religion

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Community Service, Politics, Religion, Church, Wild Goose Festival, Religious Right, Justice, God, Peace, Faith, Spirituality, Religion News

Wild Goose has connected and re-connected me to people I'd written off. I'd presumed I knew all about "them." I did not.

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Is the Church Saving Souls and Losing Students?

Rev. Romal J. Tune | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: High School Dropout Rate, Schott Foundation, Church, Education, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Epidemic, High School Dropouts, Urban Institute, Education News

Churches and other communities of faith in cities where the dropout rates are fifty percent or higher must recognize that students in our congregations are not exempt from this crisis.

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Holland's Most Sacred Book Store

Architizer | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Design, Architecture, Religion, Church, Bookstores, Books, Arts News

A bookstore is something of a sacred place these days. The few independent outlets that remain are rare opportunities to retreat from the churning o...

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Of Lent And Love: What I Learned In The Midst Of Betrayal

Carol Howard Merritt | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Church, Unfaithfulness, Footwashing, Pastor, Love, Lenten Reflection, Betrayal, Lent, Religion News

My faith was formed that evening, not by the bitter betrayals, but in the love of the women. I think about that night each Lent, as we walk toward that treacherous path with Jesus.

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The Resignation Of Eve

Reverend William E. Flippin, Jr. | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Women, Church, Sexism, Women's Empowerment, Religion and Gender, Women in Religion, Religion News

There is a natural, and deliberate movement by women of the church to challenge the system of sexism and collectively demand that their gifts not be ignored any longer.

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