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One conversation led to another. And another. And a bunch more after that. The conversations seemed to have a similar theme: “I’m over 40, and I have questions about my relationship with the local church.” I’m a question-asker myself, and…
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Over 40? Share your church experience via brief survey
I’m keenly interested in learning more about how we relate to the Church as we move into midlife and beyond, so I put together a 10-question survey of my own. If you were born before 1973, please click the link below…
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When the airport security line becomes a place of prayer
We will be watching the slow-mo horror of today’s bomb blasts in Boston over the next few days as we grieve those who lost their lives (two three at the time of this writing), reel in collective shock over the stories…
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Review: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Skeptic’s Guide Series)
Because we’ve gone to Israel five times during the last five years as part of my husband’s board responsibilities with The Caspari Center for Biblical and Jewish Studies, people ask us a lot of interesting questions about the region. Number one…
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Some of my best trends are Jewish?
In some corners of the Evangelical world, hybridizing select bits of Jewish practice with Christian faith is a way to declare that these individuals or churches really take the Bible seriously and/or love Israel. I’ve seen women dancing with tallit (prayer shawls),…
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Youth group as “discipleship incubator”?
Parents, if your older teen or young adult child was in a church-based or parachurch youth group during their high school years, I’d value your response to the questions below. If you are a young adult who logged time in…