Oh, fascinating.

Ed Young is a popular evangelical preacher in certain Christian circles. Point of Grace tried very hard to model its services after the Grapevine, Texas megachurch. And "mega" is not an exaggeration - the POG auditorium would almost fit onto their stage. And POG's lead pastor Je...

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mood: accomplished music: Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'

It is a universally-acknowledged fact that young children, almost invariably, adopt the political and religious beliefs of their parents – and they usually do so without question. Nobody has ever heard a five-year-old ask “But...

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mood: devious music: Ben Folds Five - Philosophy

Sunday at church we watched the trailer for the upcoming Hillsong United's 2009 documentary We’re All in This Together. The project producing the film, I Heart the Revolution, bills their initiative as "a movement of people seeking to help pe...

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music: Modest Mouse - Float On

Today on "A View from the Pew", we examine the curious case of:

Dressing Your Best For Christ!

I grew up at a church called First Church of the Open Bible, on the corner of Beaver and Hickman streets in Des Moines. Sunday mornings were always a flurry of activit...

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(Or, a cornucopia of Christian cliches.)

Churches are places with their own personality, full of strange smells and mysterious doors that lead to depths unknown. But all churches have a few things in common. In this week's post, we're going to explore a few of the common things you'll see in any c...

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