Two Athens, Ga., churches - one black, one white - came together yesterday morning to celebrate the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Mount Pleasant Baptist Church and Milledge Avenue Baptist Church combined for a Sunday-morning service and luncheon as a way to celebrate the federal holiday that… [more]
Theology & The Church
Christmas is starting, not ending
For most North Americans, the only reminder that Christmas was historically a 12-day festival is the song "The 12 Days of Christmas," with its turtledoves, partridges and other incomprehensible gifts. The song probably doesn't have religious origins, but it's about the only time Christians in this culture talk about the… [more]
How the Large Hadron Collider reveals the mind of God
So what exactly did happen a billionth of a second after the Big Bang? That's the question particle physicists from around the world are trying to answer via a little science experiment using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This week, researchers reported that they are one step closer to verifying… [more]
When historic churches suffer Esau congregations
A recent article in an online edition of The Atlantic calls attention to a problem for many urban churches: the care and feeding of their old building is sometimes more than the dwindling congregation can bear. The article raises an interesting question: what are - or should be - the… [more]
Advent All Around: Modern shepherds and simple joy
This is the third installment in Advent All Around, a Think Christian series that sees reflections of Advent in the culture at large. Previous pieces appeared on the first and second Sundays of Advent. We light the third advent candle today - the curiously pink candle - for the shepherds… [more]
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Siarlys Jenkins Music snobs who like things done decently and in good order are not limited to any one racial category, nor are experiments in integration the same thing as appeasing young people...
MLK and defying 'the most segregated hour'
Xioc1138 While it is true that some in science think that this will disprove God when we find the "god particle," others believe that this will simply further our knowledge on the building blocks that God created to create our universe.
How the Large Hadron Collider reveals the mind of God
Ed It looks to me like older, beautiful urban churches find themselves in problems as much for the lack of real vision on the part of the believers who attend them as anything else.
When historic churches suffer Esau congregations