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Archive for November 8th, 2006
Shift Happens
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006Join Donald Miller, Efrem Smith, Greg Stier, Judah Smith, me and thousands of others at Shift, Willowcreek’s upcoming student ministries conference, February 28-March 2, 2007. Register today!
A Neuroscientific Look at Speaking in Tongues
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006Maybe Judah should start reading the New York Times, which reports this about speaking in tongues: Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania took brain images of five women while they spoke in tongues …. “The amazing thing was how the images supported people’s interpretation of what was happening,†said Dr. Andrew B. Newberg, leader of [...]
Jesus Politics: Sex or Social Justice?
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006After the GOP debacle in yesterday’s elections, the evangelical wing of the Republican party has some serious soul-searching to do. Fittingly, Newsweek devotes its cover story and four related articles in this week’s issue to an evangelical political identity crisis. But now, more than three decades after Roe v. Wade propelled religious conservatives fully into [...]
The Haggard Truth
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006Leadership Journal’s blog “Out of Ur” offers sobering insight from Gordon MacDonald, himself a survivor of scandal, on the Ted Haggard story. On TH’s personal struggles: This deeper person … can be the source of attitudes and behaviors we normally stand against in our conscious being. But it seeks to destroy us and masses energies [...]