Items of Interest

August 15, 2011

‘Pipe organ encounters’ in Boston

Sentinel Staff

The Mother Church played host July 17 to the opening recital in a week-long series of performances, lectures, and demonstrations in Boston.

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August 15, 2011

Software enables fresh insight into who wrote the Bible

Matti Friedman

Software developed by an Israeli team is giving intriguing new hints about what researchers believe to be the multiple hands that wrote the Bible.

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August 8, 2011

Imam puts an American stamp on Islam

Raja Abdulrahim

At the pulpit of an inner-city Chicago mosque, the tall blond imam begins preaching in his customary fashion, touching on the Los Angeles Lakers victory the night before, his own gang involvement as a teenager, a TV soap opera, and then the Day of Judgment.

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August 8, 2011

Boomers and theological schools: a match made in heaven

Mike Tucker

Boomers may be acting holier than thou for a reason: They’re the fastest-growing age group in US divinity schools, increasing from 12 percent of students in 1995 to 21 percent in 2010.

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August 8, 2011

New complete Common English Bible available in digital editions

Jonathan Peterson

In a nod to the revolutionary changes occurring in publishing, the new complete Common English Bible is now debuting in 20 digital platforms, almost two months before print editions will be available in stores.

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July 25, 2011

Building on the bedrock of spirituality

Patti Waterson

David the shepherd boy must have known something about rocks.

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July 25, 2011

With rain scarce, UK churches seek divine help for farmers

A wet weekend has done little to allay the fears of farmers in drought-stricken parts of England.

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July 25, 2011

‘. . . So I can read the holy book myself’

Fredrick Nzwili

A film about Kimani Ng’ang’a Maruge, an 84-year-old man who enrolled in primary school in 2003 so he could learn to read the Bible, has inspired the creation of an educational charity for underprivileged children around the world.

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July 18, 2011

Church growth—grappling with the new norms

Amy Frykholm

A set of 2010 Gallup polls revealed that while religious participation.

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July 11, 2011

Conference forges interreligious alliances in work for world peace

Participants at the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation.

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July 11, 2011

Production begins on Bible series to air on History Channel

Lynn Elber

[TV king Mark Burnett] and his wife , actress Roma Downey, are producing the 10-part docudrama The Bible for the History Channel.

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July 4, 2011

'Back to church Sunday’ set for September 18, 2011

National Back To Church Sunday, a cross-denominational movement to reverse declining church attendance and encourage everyone to revisit congregational life, will be celebrated September 18 across the [United States].

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