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Guest Post - Seasoned Words

by Rachel Held Evans on Sep 16, 2009. Topics: ,, | Comments

By Travis Mamone I never understood why many Christians enjoy conservative pundits like Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Michelle Malkin.  It’s not because they report things that contradict my socialist agenda or anything like that.  I’m not against conservatism or conservative media in general; some of my favorite bloggers are conservatives.  No, the reason why I don’t like them is because they are just so . . . nasty. Last July on “Fox and Friends,&rdquo
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Guest Post: Mason on "Don't Stop Believing"

by Rachel Held Evans on Mar 09, 2009. Topics: , | Comments

Thanks to Mason for contributing this book review on Michael Wittmer's Don't Stop Believing. Mason's got some great ideas and a fantastic blog at http://newwaystheology.blogspot.com. If you're interested in contribuing a book review of your own during the month of March, please contact me. Believing & Doing, Doing & Believing by Mason Ever feel like you don't fit in with either 'side' in todays Christian controversies? Do your conservitive freinds think you might be teetering on the
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Guest Post: Adele on the Sex-Crazed American Christian Subculture

by Rachel Held Evans on Mar 04, 2009. Topics: ,, | Comments

I'm just a few days away from finishing the manuscript for my book, and am so thankful for friends willing to pick up the slack on the blog! Thanks to Adele for contributing this post, originally published on The Ooze. I know that not all of you will agree with her perspective, but she's a great person, so please show respect with your comments. Sex Crazed: The American Christian Subculture by Adele Sakler Remember how much of the world outside the U.S. laughed during the Bill Clinton/Monica
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Guest Post: Howard Pepper on The Great Emergence

by Rachel Held Evans on Mar 02, 2009. Topics: , | Comments

Special thanks to Howard Pepper for contributing this review of Phyllis Tickle's The Great Emergence. If you would like to contribute a book review of your own for the month of March, contact Rachel. This is a book that was fascinating to me.  So much of it was of strong interest, and it is so well researched and packed with complex analysis and theory, that I chose to read it a 2nd time for deeper understanding, and parts of it a third time!  The Great Emergence is a good summary of
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Guest Post: Micah Visits the Creation Museum

by Rachel Held Evans on Feb 09, 2009. Topics: , | Comments

Thanks to Micah for letting me use this post from his blog, Forty Monkeys, Ten Minutes. My Visit to the Creation Museum   by Micah O. So this happened quite a while ago, but I haven't gotten around to writing it up (in part because I kept putting it off until I got the pictures off my phone, and in part because I knew it would be long). I went to the Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky with the Elderberries, the 60+ crowd from VCC. The Creation Museum is an offshoot of Answers in Genes
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