Praying together—separately—has never been easier thanks to Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove’s new Common Prayer app. Claiborne and Wilson-Hartgrove are co-authors of the 2010 book Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, which has sold 56,000 copies. The year of morning, midday, and evening prayers are now in a convenient daily app format, complete with […]
“When Helping Hurts” author to speak at Canadian Conference
Have you ever made a donation based on guilt? Or given because you “should”? Or have you ever felt powerless to ease the world’s problems, and done nothing at all? It’s uncomfortable to evaluate the motivations behind our charitable actions, but it’s vitally important. A one-day conference called Helping Without Hurting will challenge participants to […]
Noah film stars Russell Crowe as environmental prophet
The upcoming Noah film made Hollywood headlines when the rains and flooding of Hurricane Sandy halted production and damaged the ark kept in Oyster Bay, NY. Noah film Star Emma Watson tweeted about the irony, and Russell Crowe (who plays the title character) even managed to need a Coast Guard rescue after kayaking too far out during a break […]
Rachel Held Evans takes on “Biblical Womanhood”
Popular blogger, author, and speaker Rachel Held Evans has added a woman’s touch to the “Year in the life of” genre of books. Following the footsteps of A.J. Jacobs’ The Year of Living Biblically and Ed Dobson’s The Year of Living like Jesus, Evans took on flowing skirts and headscarves for her new release, A Year of Biblical […]
Arrests and Uncertainty Amidst Anti-Blasphemy Laws
Earlier this month two Coptic Egyptian boys — nine and ten years old — were arrested under anti-blasphemy laws for “insulting Islam.” They were accused of tearing up pages of the Qur’an, but in a public statement their father claims the children can’t read and were unaware of the papers’ significance. He says they found […]
Justin Bieber’s Mom on Abuse, Abstinence, and God
Messed up teen decides to keep baby then turns to God. It’s not the type of story that would usually run on Ellen DeGeneres or on CTV. A memoir on Christian faith and forgiveness doesn’t normally spawn enthusiastic Twitter buzz from followers of Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Ashton Kutcher. But when you’re Justin Bieber’s […]
Papyrus scrap says Jesus was married
A three-inch fragment of papyrus is reigniting an age-old debate — whether or not Jesus was married. Karen King, Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School, presented the fragment at the 10th International Congress of Coptic Studies in Rome earlier this month. Its owner, a private collector, wishes to remain anonymous. The small fragment appears to have […]
Concerned Citizens Have One Week to Challenge Canada’s “Human Being” Definition
“There’s a particular country that we’ve come across. They’ve taken a segment of their population – children below a certain age, that live in a certain location – and they refuse to give them human rights. They label them as non-humans, so that anything anyone wants to do with those children is completely permissible. How […]