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http://tpcmagazine.org/nexus Timely News & Commentary from The Progressive Christian® Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:45:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "I think that God created the earth, created the world; I think the creation of the world is so mysterious it requires something as large as an almighty and I don't think it's incompatible with the scientific proof that there is evolution. I happen to believe that evolution doesn't fully ... http://tpcmagazine.org/nexus/?p=139 By Peter Kenny Ecumenical News International Why should the environmental movement be involved with religion? That is a question Martin Palmer, secretary general of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation, often gets asked, and he sought to answer it recently at a climate summit in a historic Swedish university city north ... http://tpcmagazine.org/nexus/?p=138 By Mary Ann Swenson Once during Advent I was in Billings, Montana for a cabinet meeting and our Christmas party. One evening we took to the (icy) streets to see the local Christmas parade, where I saw something I have never seen before or since: on the back of a hay ... http://tpcmagazine.org/nexus/?p=137 Editorial by Cynthia B. Astle The press release from the National Council of Churches' annual assembly sounded just like a standard denominational article: "The General Secretary of the National Council of Churches tonight began what he said would be an ongoing conversation with ecumenical communicators about the theology of communication and the ... http://tpcmagazine.org/nexus/?p=136 By Philip E. Jenks NCC News On the eve of its general assembly, the General Secretary of the National Council of Churches began what he said would be an ongoing conversation with ecumenical communicators about the theology of communication and the way the NCC story should be told. The Rev. Dr. Michael Kinnamon, ... http://tpcmagazine.org/nexus/?p=135 By Jim Burklo A few weeks ago at the University of Southern California, I attended a lecture given by Monte Neil Stewart, Utah lawyer and president of the Marriage Law Foundation. Mr. Stewart argued that same-sex marriage, which he calls “genderless marriage,” was part of a plan to destroy the institution ... http://tpcmagazine.org/nexus/?p=133 By Philip E. Jenks NCC News In opening sessions of the National Council of Churches' Nov. 11-13 general assembly observing the first 100 years of the ecumenical movement in the U.S., a nationally known theologian told delegates that the movement has "an historic opportunity to change." Dr. Gary Dorrien, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor ... http://tpcmagazine.org/nexus/?p=134 “If presidents need a place of spiritual solace and a community of believers, these people should be free to worship without thinking that every single thing they say is going to be ridiculed on YouTube the next day. In a moral sense, you kind of hope that everyone would step ... http://tpcmagazine.org/nexus/?p=131 "I suppose it is crass to talk of religion as a pawn in contemporary American politics, but it is crasser still to enlist God in our political projects, as if we really knew what Jesus or Yahweh or Allah would do about the stock market or the war on terror. ... http://tpcmagazine.org/nexus/?p=130 The calvin09 year (the Calvin Jubilee 2009), which celebrates the 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin, has been inaugurated in front of the Reformers' Wall in Geneva by the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC), the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches and the Protestant Church of Geneva. "John ... http://tpcmagazine.org/nexus/?p=129