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Busy Women, Advent Conspiracies, and the Countdown to Christmas
I love this post from Ellen Painter Dollar over at the Introverted Church blog. She hits upon something fundamental about the irony of December: the Advent season encourages us to slow down and...Read...
View ArticleThe Yucky Underside of the Nativity: Or, What You Won’t See in Next Year’s...
A friend of mine recently pointed out that tomorrow is the Feast of the Holy Innocents. Don't know what that is? Neither did I. In a nutshell, it marks that icky, violent part of the nativity story...
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What the Christian Century’s Top Stories of the Year Say about Protestant...
I just found out that my autumn Christian Century story on "The Mormon Moment" was the magazine's second-most popular article of...Read the full post here »
View ArticleA More Spiritual 2012: Failing Forward with God
Happy New Year, friends. This year on my blog (which, BTW, is moving locations! More on that soon), I'll be talking at least once a week about spiritual practices and how/whether to implement them....
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“Flunking Sainthood” on NPR This Morning
Just a quick note to say that I'll be interviewed live today on Michel Martin's NPR show "Tell Me More" at 11:20 a.m. This is all thanks to Kelly...Read the full post here »
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Authors Behaving Badly
I caught an interesting episode of the Diane Rehm show today featuring Lori Andrews, author of Read the full post here »
View ArticleWhy Do We Do Spiritual Practices?
I've been editing a superb book recently by Lynne Baab on spiritual practices. (Called Joy Together, it'll be out in the fall.) After exploring what congregations and churches can do to grow with God...
View ArticleWashington Post on Faith: Is Romney Mormonism’s JFK?
I have an article today in the Washington Post's "On Faith" blog, tackling the question of Mitt Romney's Mormonism and how it fits into American political history. Now that the Republicans seem to be...
View ArticleFun with the Book of Lamentations
Actually, no. That title was just a teaser. There really aren't any fun moments in the Book of Lamentations, which is why I had to make my own with the Twible. As you've probably guessed, Lamentations...
View ArticleNYC Conference on Mormonism & American Politics, February 3-4
"First Mitt won Iowa, then he lost Iowa? That's a classic Romney flip-flop." --Stephen Colbert Working with the theory that there hasn't been nearly enough attention to Mormonism and politics this...
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