Now I have to read Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling memoir – because this tepid travelogue of a self-involved yuppie writer can’t be what’s inspired so many women.
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Eat Pray Love – Shallow, Indulgent, Female Wish-Fulfillment
Morgantown, WV Contact Information Tim Cole, VEF’s Director of Church Planting (804) 690-7919 Tim@VEF.cc Position Description Church Planter needed for Morgantown, WV. The Virginia Evangelizing Fellowship (VEF) is accepting resumes for a CHURCH PLANTER to lead the development of a new church in Morgantown, West Virginia.
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Virginia Evangelizing Fellowship (VEF) Morgantown, WV Miscellaneous/ Full Time
Would evidence for God mean the end of atheism and Christianity? Yes, says Matt J. Rossano, a professor and department head of psychology at Southeastern Louisiana University
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Would Evidence for God Mean the End of Atheism and Christianity …
When I have time, I browse the Newseum’s front-page images from major newspapers across the nation. It’s interesting to see how different papers play various stories, and from time to time, I run across stories that make perfect GetReligion fodder
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The couple that pastors together
Eli quotes Andrew Sullivan on the way Christopher Hitchens is handling his ongoing struggle with cancer: Christianity’s radical claim is that it is in suffering alone that we approach the truth about our ultimate condition, just as Jesus’ intense suffering on the Cross makes sense only as an act of God’s solidarity with us in this mortal, existential panic. The position you take on this cannot be reduced to an argument. It is much deeper than that
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Touching Stoves
President Obama, after saying that building a mosque at Ground Zero fit our “commitment to religious freedom,” backtracked, saying he wasn’t commenting on the ‘wisdom’ of building it so close to ‘hallowed ground.’ A Fox News poll showed that while 61 percent of Americans believe that Cordoba House has a constitutional right to build near Ground Zero, 64 percent believe it is not appropriate to do so. Does Obama’s hedging show a lack of…Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.
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Religious freedom vs. wisdom
Paul Harvey Earlier we posted an announcement on the conference “Divided by Faith,” a symposium at Indiana Wesleyan University about Michael Emerson’s and Christian Smith’s book of that titl e. Below is the conference schedule; as you will see, blog contributors Philip Luke Sinitiere and Edward J. Blum, and friend of the blog Charles Irons, are among the participants.
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Divided by Faith: Conference Schedule
NEW DELHI: Acting on Punjab government’s recommendation, the Centre has finally deleted names of 23 former Khalistani militants — all foreign nationals — from the Centre’s list of blacklisted Sikh radicals as they are “not involved in any serious criminals cases and anti-India activities”.
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Centre removes 23 ex-Khalistani militants’ names from blacklist
Anyone who has lived in Texas knows that there are times when it seems that there are more Baptists inside the Lone Star state then there are people. When it comes to politics, separation of Baptists and state remains a vital issue.
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Got news? Baptist cuts in Texas
Joining the growing number of news agencies that are looking to capitalize on the mobile device market, Rupert Murdochs News Corp.
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News Corp. to Offer Exclusive Newspaper for Tablets and Cell Phones