Author Archives: PaulVK

Part of what is rolling around in Egypt is the question of how religious and political diversity can be worked through. Part of what toppled the Morsey government was it’s unwillingness to facilitate an open public square. What is in … Continue reading →

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Defending the Coup: NYT For me the conversations around this are fascinating. They reveal what in the west are some of our deeper political commitments. Brooks’ observations about substance vs. process are helpful, but also limited. Political partisans always rub … Continue reading →

From Faith and Leadership.  Jenee Woodard is a bustling, blueberry-muffin-making 54-year-old “mama,” she says, to Jaie, a biophysicist pursuing her Ph.D. at Harvard, and Phil, whose autism is about as severe as it gets. Woodard rarely eats breakfast, and sleeps … Continue reading →

http://www.alban.org/conversation.aspx?id=3190 “By any measure, most congregations are small” (p. 17), writes Mark Chaves in Congregations in America, in which he describes the findings of the 1998 National Congregations Study, a survey of 1,236 U.S. churches, the majority of them Christian and … Continue reading →