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Grace in the face of suicide: Theological questions and hopes
Mar 8, 2000 · Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, by Kay Redfield Jamison.Every 17 minutes someone in America takes his or her own life. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students, and the third among teenagers. In 1995 more young...
Does the promise still hold? Israel and the land: An essay and ...
Jan 13, 2009 · How are Christians to understand this promise in the 21st century? We asked Gary Anderson to write an essay, and Walter Brueggeman, Marlin Jeschke and Donald E. Wagner to respond.Walter Brueggemann's responseMarlin Jeschke's responseDonald E....
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New study examines how COVID has changed churches
The study surveyed 2,074 churches from 38 denominations and found that the pandemic had a profound impact across the religious spectrum. It examined how churches adapted to online or hybrid worship, changed their community services, and faced challenges in …
What the Prodigal Son story doesn't mean | The Christian Century
How did Jesus' listeners hear the story of the Prodigal Son in its original context? Amy-Jill Levine argues that it was not a story of repentance, forgiveness, or grace, but of finding the lost, reclaiming children, and reassessing family.
The religious aspect of the Israel-Palestine conflict
Jun 16, 2021 · In mid-May, violence between Gaza and Israel intensified to levels not seen for years, with Hamas shooting hundreds of rockets toward the Tel Aviv area and Israel retaliating with heavy strikes in the Gaza Strip. On May 20, Israel and Hamas agreed...
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5 days ago · Thoughtful, Independent, Progressive. We have become a society of people who cannot prevent our own children from being killed in their classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of war.
Who is Jesus for Muslims? | The Christian Century
Jun 7, 2017 · Zeki Saritoprak, a professor of Islamic studies, explains how Muslims view Jesus as one of the five greatest messengers of God, his miracles, his message, his return, and his mother Mary. He also discusses the role of the Holy Spirit in Islam and the common ground between Christians and Muslims.
Paul wrote 1 Corinthians to a community in the middle of a culture …
Jan 3, 2018 · Underlying this mess, there were four main difficulties: a basic failure in relating to one another in love; a dramatic failure of the local church leaders to act considerately in the face of their competition for status and influence; arrogant theological reasoning that denied the importance of the body (which we might call “Christian intellectualism”); and tensions arising …