Friday, September 30, 2016

What's Church For? A Catholic, Evangelical, and New Atheist Perspective in Today's News Commentary

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It's interesting to see today, as I scan news commentary sites, a number of articles all commenting on the decisive exodus of you...
Thursday, September 29, 2016

Question "What Is Church For?" Emerges Again with Polling Data About Who Supports Trump and Who Thinks Anti-Gay Discrimination Should Be Allowed If Business Owners Cite Religion

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Johann Baptist Metz,  "Communicating a Dangerous Memory" For your consideration:
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

A Reader Writes: "First, Let Us Assume a Spherical Cow": How Christian Theological Thinking Often Gets Done

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Nicole Chase responds brilliantly to my discussion yesterday of the bizarre proposal that people (disembodied ones, it seems) leave reli...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Patricia Miller on Catholics Driving Exodus of Nones, Kaya Oakes on How Nones Aren't Coming Back — And Why Should They, Considering What the Church Is Offering?

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Two more helpful pieces of commentary on the recently published PRRI report about why Americans (and especially younger ones) are le...
Monday, September 26, 2016

Readers Write: If 60% of "Nones" Say They've Just Stopped Believing, We Can Ignore the 40% of Catholic "Nones" Who Left Due to Abuse of Gays, Right?

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Yesterday, I noted that, in a recent posting at the Commonweal  blog, Michael Peppard points to the finding of a just-published PRR...

Trouble with Logging In to Disqus and Commenting? Some Pointers

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I've posted about this issue in the past, but since I have heard from a number of people lately who are having problems accessing...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

"Those . . . Raised Catholic Are More Likely Than Those Raised in Any Other Religion to Cite Negative Religious Treatment of Gay and Lesbian People" As Reason for Leaving Church

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In case you missed this in my posting about this topic yesterday, I want to lift this quotation out of the just-published PRRI report ...