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Apr 30, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Austin Shelley |Elizabeth Schrader Polczer |Samuel Wells
Welcome to Madang. Madang is the outdoor living room of the world. Here we invite you to sit and tune into unreserved, remarkable conversations with renowned authors, leaders, public figures, and scholars of religion, culture, and everything in between. Madang has been a dream of mine for many years, and now it is a reality. Here in the 39th episode, I converse with Rev.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Austin Shelley |Elizabeth Schrader Polczer |Samuel Wells |Thomas R. Steagald
“So, are you keeping any Pannenberg?”“No,” I said after a pause so long my friend wondered if I had heard him. “Sorry, Wolfhart.”He had come to the office to help me sort and pack for my next move, which I hoped would be my last: from a big parsonage to a little house of my own. In short, into retirement. Only a very few of my books would make the trip with me. My days of active vocational ministry were ending.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Austin Shelley |Elizabeth Schrader Polczer |Samuel Wells |Mike Ferguson
A Presbyterian Church (USA) nomination committee has named Jihyun Oh, director of the denomination’ s Mid Council Ministries and an associate stated clerk in the Office of the General Assembly, as its choice for stated clerk. If elected, Oh, who was born in South Korea and raised in Kansas, would be the first Korean American to serve in the denomination’s highest ecclesial office, the second woman, and the first woman of color.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Austin Shelley |Elizabeth Schrader Polczer |Samuel Wells |Benjamin Dueholm
The Supreme Court had never before made me think of the late, great religion scholar Jonathan Z. Smith.
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Austin Shelley |Elizabeth Schrader Polczer |Samuel Wells |Katherine Willis Pershey
On the first day of the first seminar of my doctor of ministry program, Holy Presence: Eugene Peterson and the Pastoral Imagination, I felt ill at ease during morning prayer. I was thrilled to be there. But having spent the entirety of my life in relatively progressive mainline Christian communities, I had never before had the experience of being the sole woman in an ecclesiastical space.
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Austin Shelley |Elizabeth Schrader Polczer |Samuel Wells |David Paulsen
Navajo Episcopalians are asking the Episcopal Church to elevate their area mission, known as Navajoland, to the status of a missionary diocese—a step that, if approved in June by the 81st general convention, would enable Navajoland to elect its own bishop while continuing to receive financial support from the wider church. The change is proposed by a resolution which was endorsed and submitted by a special convocation held in January by the Episcopal Church in Navajoland.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Austin Shelley |Elizabeth Schrader Polczer |Jeremy Williams |Yonat Shimron
The top legislative body of the United Methodist Church passed a series of measures Thursday to restructure the worldwide denomination to give each region greater equity in tailoring church life to its own customs and traditions.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Claire Dederer |Elizabeth Schrader Polczer |Austin Shelley |Samuel Wells
A spin instructor once told me that she never pays for the Kanye West songs she plays in class. The music is good but the artist is ethically questionable, so she refuses to put money behind it. When she wants to play anything by Kanye, she illegally downloads it.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Elizabeth Schrader Polczer |Austin Shelley |Samuel Wells |Alejandra Oliva
I was a ballet dancer for about ten years, from age 5 to 15, when my feet rebelled against the strictures of pointe shoes and I had to give it up. I wasn’t ever particularly serious about it—I didn’t want to take more than two classes a week; no ballet teacher ever said I had it, whatever indefinable thing makes a ballerina a ballerina; and I certainly am not genetically predisposed toward the tall, willowy slimness of a Balanchine girl.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Elizabeth Schrader Polczer |Austin Shelley |Samuel Wells |Adelle M. Banks
Conservative religious leaders who had been imploring Speaker Mike Johnson to back assistance for Ukraine and Israel in fighting their wars celebrated the House’s passage of foreign aid packages Saturday, clearing the way for the measures to go to the Senate, which passed the bill late last night.
