Brand new CC content from Sam Wells, Philip Jenkins, and more.
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** An ode to our columnists
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Once or twice each year, I use this email to praise our magazine’s Voices columnists. After having the chance to chat with one of our most beloved columnists about the art of preaching ([link removed]) , I felt like this would be one of those weeks. I think what I so appreciate about our slate of regular writers is the diversity and variety of their perspectives and, well, their voices. Scholars, pastors, and writers who are Anglican or Lutheran or Baptist or Mennonite or no longer practicing Christianity, they write about topics ranging from substitutionary atonement theory ([link removed]) to science fiction novels ([link removed]) to the joys of raising chickens ([link removed]) .
In addition to the new Voices video, we have a couple of great new columns. Julian DeShazier considers the problems of uneven volunteer leadership at church ([link removed]) and explores a new approach. Philip Jenkins reveals some of the actual history of Gnostic gospels ([link removed]) —which is quite different from their treatment in Dan Brown novels.
Plus scroll down for an essay about a priest who mastered haiku ([link removed]) , an interview with a leader in faith-based reproductive rights activism ([link removed]) , and more.
Email me: Who are your favorite CC writers?
Jon Mathieu
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Sam Wells on how to preach ([link removed])
Jon chats with CC Voices columnist Sam Wells about some of the most important factors in crafting sermons.
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** The 80/20 rule is a problem for churches ([link removed])
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“We decided that just this once we’d frame an action not as the work of a few on our behalf but as something the entire church would be helping with. We obviously needed some folks to help coordinate logistics, but they were going to shape the work for the rest of us, not do it all themselves.”
by Julian DeShazier
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** Were the lost gospels really lost? ([link removed])
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“Students of church history may know about heretical movements like the followers of Marcion and Bardaisan. But most would be surprised to read Islamic writers of the 11th century who remarked on the gospels attributed to those ancient heretical leaders, which were still circulating freely.”
by Philip Jenkins
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** In the Lectionary for January 14 (Epiphany 2B) ([link removed])
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Jesus’ word of insight to Nathanael seems a lot like a carnival grift.
by Benjamin J. Dueholm
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** The Iowa poet-priest who mastered haiku ([link removed])
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“Mother, why is
Father dying on the cross
in our cornfield?”
– Raymond Roseliep
by Robert Hirschfield
** Seeing abortion access as a blessing ([link removed])
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“For me, the pro-choice/pro-life labels aren’t especially helpful. They’re abstract. What I am is pro people’s abortion stories and pro allowing the person in front of me to name what the experience means for them.”
Annelisa Burns interviews Katey Zeh
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