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  Author proposes end to interfaith hostility

  Author Brian McLaren asks, “Would the founders of the world’s major religions have treated one another differently than how their followers treat one another?”

  04/19/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Faith Digest: Americans love, ignore Bible

  More than half of Americans think the Bible has too little influence on a culture they see in moral decline, but only one American in five reads the Bible on a regular basis, according to a new Barna Group survey from the American Bible Society.

  04/12/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Christians called to protect Earth, environmentalist tells students

  Concern for people created in God’s image demands care for the Earth where they live, missionary-environmentalist Ben Lowe told students at Hardin-Simmons University.

  04/11/2013 - By Ken Camp

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  Ministry of presence and listening crucial for grieving families & churches

  Effective pastoral ministry when a death occurs requires ministers to confront their own anxieties about dying, a former hospital chaplain told a conference at Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary.

  04/10/2013 - By Ken Camp

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  Faith Digest: Lego says Jabba set not anti-Islam

  Danish toymaker Lego is defending its Star Wars-based Jabba the Hutt building-blocks set after a Turkish cultural group said it promulgates negative stereotypes of Muslims.

  04/05/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Dark-skinned portrayals of Satan have a long history

  When some people recently started questioning whether the Satan character on The Bible miniseries resembled President Obama, others posed a broader question: Why does Satan need to be dark-skinned at all?

  04/05/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Pastor says numerical success not ministry measure

  Jim Somerville says now is the perfect time to start seeing the church less as an institution to be preserved and more as a force for change in society.

  04/05/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Is small the new big for Millennials?

  The early Christian congregations were small enough to meet in homes. The first Baptists sought to emulate the pattern. Then came the megachurches. Where-to next?

  04/05/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Faith Digest: Monks can make caskets

  The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the Benedictine monks of St. Joseph Abbey near Covington, La., have a right to sell handmade wooden caskets in their home state.

  03/29/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Dr. Livingstone, I presume? Missionary icon turns 200

  Britain marked David Livingstone’s 200th birthday recently, and Christians are being reintroduced to one of the greatest missionaries and explorers of the 19th century.

  03/28/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Chris Tomlin wants to reflect the light of Jesus

  Growing up attending Main Street Baptist Church in Grand Saline, future songwriter Chris Tomlin never anticipated the accolades that would come his way and all he would achieve. 

  03/28/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  New pope has a model for Muslim engagement in Francis of Assisi

  Just as many Catholics have connected Pope Francis’ humility and austere lifestyle with that of Francis of Assisi, those seeking clues on the new pontiff’s approach to Christian-Muslim relations see another example in the iconic namesake.

  03/22/2013 - By John Rutledge