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Japanese Spiritual Skills Copied by the World

Japanese Spiritual Skills Copied by the World? Mindfulness has become trendy around the world in recent years – but in Japan, it’s been ingrained into the culture for centuries. Steve John Powell Even moss is appreciated by the mindful Japanese. Credit: Andrew Whitehead/Alamy. As the sleek shinkansen bullet train glided noiselessly into the station, I Read More…

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Parsonage for the Pastor

  Parsonage for the Pastor: I’m retired now but served three churches as pastor. For most of that thirty-year period my family and I lived in homes owned by the church, the parsonage. An article earlier this year on the subject, Behold, the lowly parsonage, covers much of the details on this. Comments were generally Read More…

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Southern Baptist Convention – Sex Abuse Scandal

Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville, Tenn. Leaders of the SBC stonewalled and denigrated survivors of clergy sex abuse for years, according to a 288-page scathing report. Southern Baptist pastors in Florida are among about 700 of the denomination’s clergy who have been “credibly accused” of sexual abuse, the church’s governing body said with the release Read More…