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On Religion
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By Terry Mattingly
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009
If members of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod have heard it once, they've heard their national leaders repeat this mantra a thousand times: "This is not your grandfather's church." |
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By Terry Mattingly
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
Maureen Dowd of The New York Times has long enjoyed flaunting her Catholic schoolgirl pedigree like a badge of honor. Still, the Pulitzer Prize winner took her game to another level in a recent column attacking Rome for its investigation of religious orders which shelter sisters who oppose many of the church's teachings. Wait, is "investigation" the right word? |
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On Religion
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By Terry Mattingly
Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009
When it comes to comedian Ricky Gervais, journalist Paul Asay openly confesses that he is a fan. This may seem strange since Asay works for Plugged In, a media Web site sponsored by Focus on the Family -- a powerful brand name in evangelical media. Yes, he knows the hip writer, actor and director is a proud, articulate atheist. However, he also thinks that Gervais is "actually quite talented and a very funny guy." |
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On Religion
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By Terry Mattingly
Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009
Mitch Albom has seen plenty of extremely large men, which isn't surprising after a quarter century as one of America's top sports writers. But he wasn't ready for the giant who met him outside the Pilgrim Church's dilapidated Gothic sanctuary near downtown Detroit. The Rev. Henry Covington was as tall as a basketball player but weighed 400 pounds or more. |
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By Terry Mattingly
Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009
After being knocked halfway to kingdom come, Tim Tebow knew that millions of college football fans would be paying close attention to his eyes the next time he led the Florida Gators into action. Viewers would be looking for signs that the quarterback was OK after a nasty concussion. Many would also want to see which Bible reference would be written in the patches of eye black that would be visible whenever TV cameras focused on the face of America's most famous muscular Christian. |
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On Religion
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By Terry Mattingly
Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009
If researchers want to uncover the roots of America's bitter divisions on abortion, the first thing they should do is ask millions of citizens this question: How often do you attend worship services? |
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By Terry Mattingly
Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009
Anyone who has turned on talk radio or the television, scanned the headlines or visited Capitol Hill lately knows that millions of Americans are angry. |
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On Religion
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By Terry Mattingly
Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009
The recent obituaries celebrating the career of nationally syndicated horoscope columnist Linda C. Black included a number of colorful details about her life. She was a Libra and lived on a peacock farm on California's Central Coast. The Chicago Tribune also reported that Black was "a devout Catholic and a devoted follower of astrology, which holds that the position of the stars and planets has a direct effect on human affairs and personalities." |
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By Jan Warner and Jan Collins
Monday, Sept. 28, 2009
Q: I am a 67-year-old widower. Since a year after my wife died in 2004, I have been looking for companionship, but, very frankly, I have struck out. I don't want to go to bars. I have looked at online-dating services, but everyone seems to be younger than I. I have read your column for years, and, on a hunch, thought you might be able to help me.
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By Terry Mattingly
Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009
There was no way for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to affirm the ministries of clergy living in "publicly accountable, lifelong, monogamous, same-gender relationships" without attracting attention. |
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By Terry Mattingly
Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009
Since returning this fall, Craig Dunham has asked his Biblical Ethics students at Westminster Christian Academy to focus on ways that conservative believers can participate in hot public debates while showing respect for others. |
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By Terry Mattingly
Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009
In the summer of 2004, the Vatican sent a letter to the United States addressing one of the hottest issues facing the church here -- whether politicians who back abortion rights should receive Holy Communion. |
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By Terry Mattingly
Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009
The "Your Life, Your Choices" booklet didn't cause trouble at the Department of Veterans Affairs until late in President George W. Bush's second term. That's when critics spotted an odd detail in this guide for end-of-life medical decisions. It urged aging veterans to seek expert advice from one group -- Compassion & Choices. It helps to know that this organization was created in 2005 through the merger of two groups, Compassion in Dying and End-of-Life Choices and that, until 2003, End-of-Life Choices was known as the Hemlock Society. |
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By Terry Mattingly
Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009
There is nothing particularly newsworthy about a coalition of pro-lifers releasing a public manifesto that criticizes politicos who support abortion rights. Nevertheless, a full-page advertisement in The New York Times during the 1992 Democratic National Convention raised eyebrows because a few prominent Democrats endorsed "A New American Compact: Caring about Women, Caring for the Unborn." One name in particular jumped out in this list -- Kennedy. |
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By Terry Mattingly
Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009
Every half a millennium or so, waves of change rock Christianity until they cause the kind of earthquake that forces historians to start using capital letters. "What happened before the Great Reformation, we all know," said Phyllis Tickle, author of two-dozen books on faith and culture. "We know, for instance, that some sucker sailed west and west and west and didn't fall off the dad gum thing. That was a serious blow." |
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By Terry Mattingly
Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009
The Rev. Gordon Atkinson had few specific goals when he started planning his 13-week sabbatical from his duties at Covenant Baptist Church near San Antonio.
"I knew that I didn't want to be in charge of anything," said Atkinson, long known as the "Real Live Preacher" to those who read his intensely personal online journal (reallivepreacher.com). "Preachers talk and talk, and I wanted to get away from that. I didn't want to be a worship tourist, but I thought it would be refreshing to worship in some places where I was the person in the room who knew the least about what was going on." |
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