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The Written World
Listen to this excellent BBC Radio 4 program
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Bach’s Oratorio on a Sunday Morning
Should we fear that high art, like the music of Bach, might die within the church?
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Why a “Lutheran church”?
Why is there (still) a Lutheran Church? Old perspectives for new questions.
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New Book: Seventeenth Century Lutheran Meditations and Hymns
The full preface to the book, written by Robert Kolb
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The Bible as literature: Marilynne Robinson on "the book of books"
The novelist Marilynne Robinson, who always writes eloquently, writes eloquently of the innumerable connections between the Bible and other works of art. I think she’s…
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Five inner demons, four better angels . . .
. . . and a more peaceful 2012? That’s not yet another take on the 12 Days of Christmas, it’s what Steven Pinker, Harvard Psychologist,…
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Finding Christmas in an incomplete sentence
The current liturgical church year is a year to read the Gospel of Mark. But what are we to do at Christmastime with the only…
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LAY BIBLE INSTITUTE asks “Are We Still Fighting the Crusades?” – Jan 2012
Paul Robinson will lead the winter Lay Bible Institute, “Are We Still Fighting the Crusades?” The Institute will take place Wednesday evenings, Jan 11-Feb 1,…
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A “Church” that Never Saw “Christmas”
Ancient ruins and our not-so-ancient “Christmas”