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  • Worship, MTV Style.  All style, no substance?

    Worship, MTV Style. All style, no substance?

    The next time you think about it, open your weekend newspaper and look at the selection of churches advertised in your city. You’re probably not likely to see very many ads offering “church services” to the reader. In fact, the term you might be more likely to encounter to describe church is “worship service.” Worship.

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  • Who Am I…

    Who Am I…

    Ever since my first airplane flight as a middle schooler on the 1970’s era Delta Tri-Star, I have loved window seats on jetliners.  If allowed, I could entertain myself from Atlanta to L.A. with little more than a Coca-Cola, a window seat, clear skies, and a GPS fired up and plugged into a laptop computer

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  • John Owen on Overcoming Sin and Temptation

    I’ve always loved to read.  My son is learning to love to read, too.  By far some of the best days of the year in my elementary school years were those days when the beloved BookMobile would deliver the dozen or so 45 cent paperbacks I had ordered earlier in the year through the Scholastic

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  • Andrew Beaujon | Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock

    Da Capo Press sent us an interesting new book written by Andrew Beaujon, who has also written for Spin Magazine, The Washington Post, and salon.com.  The book, titled Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inisde the Phenomenon of Christian Rock, is an outsiders look (with input from insiders) at the history of contemporary Christian music. What

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