Category: Demographics and Sociology
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The Love of Christ that Surpasses All Understanding… & Archbishop Welby’s Age of “Radical Christian Inclusion”
Aside from rituals of blessings and marriage of LGBT persons that are testing our churches, I have the sneaking suspicion there is a more fundamental problem: That too much worship has become either ritualism or sensationalism and not transformation.
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Wedding Officiating for “Nones”
What to do when your non-religiously-affiliated friends ask you to officiate at their wedding.
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Ageless Wisdom: An Interview with Prof. Christopher Bellitto
While we have examples of wise elders, we also have examples of young people filled with wisdom and old people—even wise king Solomon—ending their lives as fools.
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More beauty, less God?
“Cathedrals don’t bang on about God in cathedrals but they bang on about beauty and that’s why I love them.” –Simon Jenkins
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Scientific Research: Worship Is Healthy
“Our findings support the overall hypothesis that increased religiosity – as determined by attendance at worship services – is associated with less stress and enhanced longevity.”
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New Study on Religion and Nationality in Central and Eastern Europe
The Pew Research Center has published a new study of religion and national identity in Central and Eastern Europe.
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Alternative Facts on Vatican II
After the Second Vatican Council, church attendance numbers in Germany declined. It is frequently maintained that there is a causal connection between the two. But is this really true?
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Is Sexism Real?
In my dictionary of life, being “big, bad-manned” usually involves an action (by a male) which makes you (the female) feel stupid, belittled, and as if you were taking up too much space.
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Liturgical (Reform of the) Reform and “Neighborhood People”
Liturgical “neighborhood people” are those who love the liturgy they grew up with and are attached to it not for the richness of its theology or the beauty of its words or music or vestments or architecture, but simply because it is theirs, and has been theirs through moments of great sorrow and moments of…