
Our pastor drew this on Sunday morning. Any guesses? I know it cleared up everything for me.
It appears that all my news gathering algorithms were no match for the slow news cycle of a Memorial Day weekend. Nonetheless, we have a great list for you, but our deal with PARSE is that you need to click through to their site and then select the story you want to see. Click anything below to link.
- Worship leaders of all makes and models convened at Calvin College last week to sort out the music of the last six decades.
- Joyce Meyer, Joel Osteen and T. D. Jakes were among the authors caught in last week’s showdown between Hachette Book Group and Amazon.
- Richard Dawkins: “I would describe myself as a secular Christian in the same sense as secular Jews have a feeling for nostalgia and ceremonies.” The author was presenting the first volume of his memoirs and made the remark in response to a comment from an American minister.
- Interview of the Week (1): How important is reading to the development of spiritual life? Can you be illiterate and be a faithful Christian?
- Interview of the Week (2): The InterVarsity Fall 2014 Catalog is remarkable for its omission of authors of color.
- Last week an opinionated blogger suggested that the meditation practice known as Lectio Divina was “dangerous.” Here is an informed response.
- Did a church experience leave you or someone you know abused or burned out? They could be suffering from Post Traumatic Church Syndrome or PTCS.
- Clobber Verses Department: A rather good attempt at balance in the Leviticus prohibition against homosexuality.
- Essay of the Week (1): Despite their preponderance online, the New Calvinism movement must contend with some serious problems.
- Essay of the Week (2): When navigating your church through times of transition, there is a big difference between change and transformation.
- Essay of the Week (3): The honest, painful story of a couple who made the decision to terminate a pregnancy.
- Despite losing two sons in an Arkansas tornado, a mother affirms the goodness of God.
- If rush hour commuters are taking a short cut through your church parking lot anyway, why not install a prayer box?
- Apologetics Alley: When people you know are hung up on alleged Bible contradictions, here are ten principles to keep in mind when formulating your response.
- After years of silence followed by coming out gay, singer Jennifer Knapp is telling her story in a book releasing through Howard Publishing.
- The cover story of a UK Evangelical magazine proclaims that one’s stand on homosexuality has become the new litmus test for orthodoxy.
- The blog, Just a Thought continues its Five Questions series with a survivor of the worst disaster in U.S. Navy history.
- “The fact that all five of the greatest men in the Bible failed so miserably gives me incredible hope and encouragement.” The common denominator among Bible greats.
- Recurring Discussion Department: Why American Christians might want to reconsider reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
- For some visionaries, it seems that every time they have a great idea, it only takes nanoseconds for the leadership to say ‘No.’
- Here’s a double-header for a pastor whose blog I’ve been following for a long time: Keeping volunteers on message and avoiding the tendency to ‘fix’ people.
- If you’re considering “the ministry,” keep in mind that it’s not all glamor. Instead, it’s mostly nuts and bolts and odd hours.
- Here’s a book review that intrigued me. Mission Drift deals with Institutional Drift, which happens when organizations become distracted.
- In Canada, the Province of Quebec is re-introducing its controversial euthanasia legislation.
- The last remaining major newspaper reporter dedicated to religion news has had her position terminated after 27 years.
- Okay, admittedly he doesn’t update it very often, but infrequently Ed Young still posts at his Pastor Fashion blog.
- The choices may be a little biased, but if you want to balance out all the contemporary bloggers and Tweeters in your day with some classic writing, try The Old Guys.
- Hillsong’s “Oceans” (“You call me out upon the waters…”) has cracked a record set by MercyMe in 2003 for the longest run on the top of the Billboard Christian Songs Chart.
- CBN News profiles NHL veteran and Stanley Cup Champion Matt Cullen.
- Booked your Christian music festival for the summer? I love the website for June’s AtlantaFest 2014. Find an event near you at the Christian Festival Guide.
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