Day: July 30, 2013

Faith in fiction

| Posted on July 30, 2013 |

Randy Boyagoda expresses dismay with the recent state of faith in fiction:

Moral Monday update

| Posted on July 30, 2013 |

Sharon Sheridan writes the latest on the Moral Monday protests in Episcopal News Service:

Humanist seeks to become military chaplain

| Posted on July 30, 2013 |

Jason Heap holds master’s degrees from Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University and Oxford University, and is close to finishing his doctorate. He teaches religious studies and is a scholar on 17th-century Baptist literature. He wants to be a Navy chaplain. But he doesn’t believe in God. Stars and Stripes reports:

Cool Christianity

| Posted on July 30, 2013 |

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush writes in The Huffington Post that Christanity has become cool again. He begins with a historical coolness of Christian leaders:

In the weeds

| Posted on July 30, 2013 |

In our gospel lesson for Sunday, Jesus reflects on the parable of the weeds: the paradox of sin flourishing side by side and sometimes indistinguishable from virtue.

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