Gerardo Marti Congregations and Social Change: Adaptation and Innovation among Religious Communities June 27 – July 22, 2011 I will be directing a research seminar at Calvin College next summer. I’ve met other readers and contributors from this blog during the oh-so-pleasant Michigan summers and enjoyed the stimulating dialogue and scholarly support encouraged through these seminars. This is an open invitation: Seminar Description This research seminar will closely examine the ongoing relationships between congregations and processes of broad ranging, societal change
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2011 Summer Research Seminar: Congregations and Social Change
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The Pew Forum has done it again with their latest in a series of polls that show the dumbification of America. Just when we think this country is full of Kumbaya singers, universal proselytizers and everyone reading the same page on religion, we discover that people of faith, in essence… can’t friggin’ read! Or if
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Sure I believe in God, but what’s a Bible?
Once upon a time there was a man named Jesus who came to this jacked-up place to sacrifice his life for mankind. You see, his Daddy determined a perfect sacrifice is what was necessary to redeem the lives of the rest of us
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Barack Obama does understand we all chose Christ, right?
by Christopher Jones The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life has released the results of its U.S.
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A Quick Overview of the Results from the Pew Forum’s U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey
I remember my grandfather (J.M.S. Baljon) as the keeper of his study, as a gardener who taught me the basics of that craft – and as an ambitious chess and bridge player. When I went to study religion studies at Leiden University, I knew I’d be meeting some of his old students and colleagues
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Conflict resolution and controversy
There is a very important day coming at the end of this week, so I plan on rocking the light-hearted stuff now. And although the topic may be light, the calorie count probably is not
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What the Halal? Muslim burger chains in France are popular… for some
Citing the contentious debate about the proposed Islamic center near Manhattan’s ground zero, a Muslim civil rights group launched a national campaign Thursday aimed at countering hostilities and misperceptions about Muslims.
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Muslim first-responders were also 9-11 victims
As you can see, I had another busy month. There are a lot of spiritual gift ideas here, as well as pages on famous people and one quotes page. Interfaith Jewelry – letting all religions coexist A lot of people are worried about the way different religions antagonize one another
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New spiritual pages on squidoo August 2010
In a recent Wall Street Journal article, terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann said that anti-Muslim rhetoric in America is bad news for anti-terrorism efforts: “We are handing al Qaeda a propaganda coup, an absolute propaganda coup.” By many accounts, the man who could blunt the power of that coup is Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the religious leader behind the planned Islamic Center near Ground Zero. The imam has been surprisingly mum on the issue while he…Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.
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What should Imam Rauf say?