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Jesuscreed following Warren Carter’s work.

• Clay Libolt on the Athanasian Creed
• Jason and Alise Wright on the Mixed Race Couple Response
• Stephen King doesn’t believe in God but thinks the Universe suggests intelligent design
• Atheist to Christian by Megan Holder:

My friendships with practicing Catholics finally convinced me that I had to make a decision. Faith, after all, isn’t merely an intellectual exercise, an assent to certain propositions; it’s a radical act of the will, one that engenders a change of the whole person. Books had taken me to Catholicism as a plausible conjecture, but Catholicism as a living truth I came to understand only through observing those already serving the Church within that life of grace.

What the modern world can learn from traditional societies.

High-altitude traffic jams are depriving Mount Everest of its sense of adventure http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/28/4372044/mount-everest-traffic-jams

Is the new ‘bible of psychiatry’ a weapon for the courts? http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/28/4370328/legally-unsound-a-book-meant-to-assist-doctors-becomes-a-weapon-in

Facebook promises to crack down on hate speech after boycott campaign http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/28/4374042/facebook-promises-to-crack-down-on-hate-speech

from Christianity Today

So many churches focus on the 30 somethings with kids. Here is some discussion on 40+ folks downshifting and why. Jesuscreed. 

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One possible explanation for this omission, according to the CTP, is that many youth groups offer teens a “Red Bull experience of the gospel”—it was “potent enough to help them make the right decision at a party in high school” but not “powerful enough to foster long-term faith.”

To move students beyond a Red Bull experience we must relentlessly remind them that the Christian faith is one centered on the person of Jesus. Developing and maintaining a relationship with God requires engagement with scripture and the stories of Christ found there.

 Stirring and Moving.