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The Thoughtful Christian This Sunday you might consider studying Where Is God When Disaster Strikes? by Wendy Farley

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Everyone faces situations of difficulty and suffering. We also watch world events such as floods, earthquakes, famines, and wars that show us suffering on a massive scale. Especially in this age of information, ...
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The Thoughtful Christian If your youth were affected by this weeks tragedy in Texas consider Finding God in Times of Tragedy by Martha Hubbard Miller

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Horrible tragedies have occurred since the beginning of time. The Bible is full of stories of tragedies, and we see them all around us these days: tsunamis, school shootings, wars, hurricanes. Where is ...
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The Thoughtful Christian This Sunday you might consider studying Gun Control: Is There a Christian Response? by Jason Byassee

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Perhaps nothing highlights our political divisions in America so starkly as the debate over gun control. For gun-control advocates, gun owners are a terrifying group of yahoos who irrationally fear governmental ...
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The Thoughtful Christian Let us pray for all those who have been affected by the shooting related tragedies in the last 24 hours

Fri at 12:10pm
Barbara Tarvid
Barbara Tarvid
Amen. A moment of silence just doesn't seem like enough time to reflect and pray.
Fri at 2:10pm
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Dear Thoughtful Christians,Last Thursday, House Democrats unveiled a controversial, $894 billion health-care bill. This is the latest update in this year’s health-care debate. In order to keep on top of this monumental discussion, we’re releasing our third study on health-care reform titled “Heal...
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The Thoughtful Christian Entering Zoo Station: A Christian U2 Critic Talks to the Media by Greg Garrett

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The Thoughtful Christian Thoughtful Christian author Rebecca Barnes-Davies received a strong review from YouthWorker Journal for her book 50 Ways to Help Save the Earth. Learn more at http://bit.ly/26TneO

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We have heard for decades that human activities that burn fossil fuels (driving, flying, household energy use, industrial and agricultural energy use) may also be warming the earth. Until very recently, ...
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The Thoughtful Christian Still searching for Advent sunday school lessons? Give The Thoughtful Christian a chance.

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Neither Lent nor Advent is exactly “biblical,” of course. But the days they each await—Easter and Christmas—recall events central to the story of Jesus in the Gospels. Over the centuries, Christians have ...
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The Thoughtful Christian Health-Care Reform: What's in the Way? - What are the obstacles Congress faces as they debate health-care reform? With so many differing viewpoints, can we as a nation create common ground for the common good?

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We are closer to comprehensive health-care reform than we have been since President Theodore Roosevelt first proposed universal health care in 1912. But we aren’t there yet, and the full scope of reform has yet to be determined. ...
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The Thoughtful Christian People want to be religious, says scholar Karen Armstrong; we should help make religion a force for harmony.

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TED Talks People want to be religious, says scholar Karen Armstrong; we should help make religion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to help build a Charter for Compassion -- to restore the Golden Rule as the central global religious doctrine.
Bill Borland
Bill Borland
Armstrong's arguments are more systematically presented in "The Case for God," her scholarly response to rational atheism.
November 4 at 12:30pm
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The Thoughtful Christian Cash for Churchgoers? What incentive did Jesus have? by @bobsmietana

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Faith & Reason: A conversation about religion, spirituality & ethics
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The Thoughtful Christian Did you know that we've made more FREE sample bible studies available for download? Try us out & consider subscribing.

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The Thoughtful Christian Social networks and kids: How young is too young? - CNN.com

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Status updates, photo tagging and FarmVille aren't just for adults or even teenagers anymore.
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The Thoughtful Christian Carol Howard Merritt: Women get to talk now, too - Call & Response by Leadership Education at Duke Divinity

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Most of us have gone to a professional conference. They’re a chance to gather with people from across the region to worship together and learn from one another. We listen to inspiring preaching that feeds our soul and emboldens our own art. ...
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The Thoughtful Christian Chronicle of a Death We Can’t Accept by Thomas G. Long - Op-Ed Columnist The New York Times @nytimes

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The wild blossoming of unconventional mortuary merchandise reveals that Americans are no longer sure what to do with the dead.
John C. Hembruch
John C. Hembruch
Thank you for a thought provoking piece by one of the great preachers of our time.
November 2 at 11:08am