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		<title>Shine Bright Baby debuts cd &#8220;Dreamers&#8221; with BEC Recordings July 23</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ernest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SHINE BRIGHT BABY DEBUTS CD DREAMERS RELEASING WITH BEC RECORDINGS JULY 23;   First Single “Beautiful Love” Now Active At Radio Nashville, Tenn – BEC Recordings is set to release the first recording from the band Shine Bright Baby. The national debut disc from the worshipful electronic rockers, titled Dreamers, is set to release July 23. The foursome comprising Shine Bright [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pastor’s tornado tweets stir up a theological debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 06:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(RNS) Oklahoma’s devastating tornado stirred up a theological debate that was set off from a series of deleted tweets referencing the Book of Job.
Popular evangelical author and speaker John Piper regularly tweets Bible verses, but two verses he tweeted after the tornado struck some as at best insensitive and at worst bad theology:

“Your sons and daughters were eating and a great wind struck the house, and it fell upon them, and they are dead.” Job 1:19
“Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped.” Job 1:20

In the Book of Job, God allows Satan to afflict “blameless” Job, killing his 10 children, livestock and servants. While Piper&#8217;s tweets didn&#8217;t mention the tornado by name, critics said it was too close, and inappropriate.
Piper, who recently retired from the pulpit of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, is a leading theologian of the neo-Calvinist movement that&#8217;s sweeping many evangelical churches. In essence, Desiring God staffer Tony Reinke wrote, Piper was highlighting God&#8217;s sovereignty and that he is still worthy of worship in the midst of suffering and tragedy.
In response, popular evangelical writer Rachel Held Evans blasted Piper&#8217;s &#8220;abusive theology of  &#8216;deserved&#8217; tragedy,&#8221; and said Christians have to stop the idea of responding to tragedy by suggesting God is inflicting his judgment.
“The only thing we need to tell them is, ‘I don’t know why this happened but God is good and God loves us,’” she said in an interview.
However, she apologized in a follow-up post. “Piper’s tweet was vague enough that I don’t know that he was necessarily saying this point this time. Maybe it wasn’t the best time to call him out.”
Piper, who has nearly a half a million followers, was unavailable for comment but he tweeted a brief explanation, saying in part: “My hope and prayer for Oklahoma is that the raw realism of Job&#8217;s losses will point us all to his God ‘compassionate and merciful.’”
“John realized last night pretty quickly that what gives him comfort in the wake of tragedy is not what resonates with everyone,” David Mathis, executive director of Piper’s Desiring God ministry, wrote in an email on Tuesday (May 21).
Idaho pastor and blogger Doug Wilson came to Piper’s defense, saying that the theological issues are logically simple but emotionally complex.
“The Christian church has to return to a robust understanding of who God is,” Wilson said in an interview. “If we do, we won’t have to hash through this with every tragedy.”
Author Philip Yancey said that the worst thing Christians could do is to be like Job’s friends, who tried to explain why God allowed tragedy to strike Job’s family.
“God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen,” Yancey said. “When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.”
Megachurch pastor Rick Warren tweeted a few days after the tornado, “In deep pain, people don&#8217;t need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.#Love.”
This is not the first time Piper has generated theological debate through Twitter. After blogger Justin Taylor suggested Rob Bell’s “Love Wins” book was universalist, Piper tweeted “Farewell Rob Bell” with a link to the post.
Piper also came under fire after suggesting in a blog post that a small tornado during a conference of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America was a “gentle but firm warning” as it debated its position on homosexuality.
KRE/AMB END BAILEY
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		<title>All Sons &amp; Daughters Release Songs For Oklahoma To Help Tornado Relief Efforts In Moore, OK</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 18:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ernest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[INTEGRITY MUSIC’S ALL SONS &#38; DAUGHTERS RELEASE SONGS FOR OKLAHOMA TO HELP TORNADO RELIEF EFFORTS IN MOORE, OK   All Sons &#38; Daughters’ First CD/DVD, LIVE, Hit No. 1 At iTunes’ Top Concert Films Movie Sales Chart Amidst Wide Acclaim   Duo Announces Canadian Tour In October Following First Headline Tour This Fall   Responding to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chris Tomlin&#8217;s &#8220;burning lights tour&#8221; makes career history</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 17:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ernest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Tomlin performs at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on the &#8220;Burning Lights Tour.&#8221; Photo Credit: Mary Caroline Mann   Chris Tomlin performs at Madison Square Garden Theater on the &#8220;Burning Lights Tour.&#8221; Photo Credit: Chris Bartelski GRAMMY® Winner Chris Tomlin’s “Burning Lights Tour” Makes Career History, Selling Out 25 Dates including New York City, Los Angeles, Houston [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amy Grant Debuts at No. 1 on Christian Soundscan and No. 12 on Billboard 200</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 17:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ernest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amy Grant’s “Stellar” and “Transparent” Album,  How Mercy Looks From Here, Debuts at No. 1 on Christian Soundscan and No. 12 on the Billboard 200   Nashville, Tenn. – On the heels of receiving some of the best reviews of her 30+ year career, six time GRAMMY® winner Amy Grant has even more to celebrate as her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pope Francis: God redeemed everyone, ‘not just Catholics’</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 05:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(RNS) Pope Francis is warning Catholics not to demonize those who are not members of the church, and he specifically defended atheists, saying that building walls against non-Catholics leads to “killing in the name of God.”
Pope Francis waves to the crowd in St. Peter&#8217;s Square on Tuesday (March 19) at the Vatican. RNS photo by Andrea Sabbadini This image available for Web and print publication. For questions, contact Sally Morrow. 
“(T)his ‘closing off’ that imagines that those outside, everyone, cannot do good is a wall that leads to war and also to what some people throughout history have conceived of: killing in the name of God,” Francis said Wednesday (May 22) in remarks at the informal morning Mass that he celebrates in the chapel at the Vatican guesthouse where he lives.
“And that, simply, is blasphemy. To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.”
Francis explained that doing good is not a matter of faith: “It is a duty, it is an identity card that our Father has given to all of us, because he has made us in his image and likeness.”
To both atheists and believers, he said that “if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that culture of encounter: we need that so much. We must meet one another doing good.”
In a passage that may prompt a theological debate about the nature of salvation, the pontiff also declared that God “has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone!”
“Even the atheists,” he said to those who might question his assertion. “Everyone!”
Wednesday’s remarks displayed the kind of plain-spokenness that has become a hallmark of Francis’ homilies and speeches, and they also developed themes that Francis frequently mentions in a pontificate that is just over two months old.
One is that the Catholic Church must be open to the world and not “self-referential, closed in on herself,” as he said last weekend at Pentecost. Another is that the church must be humble and recognize its own shortcomings, and that it should be tolerant of nonbelievers.
Francis’ homily on Wednesday was inspired by the passage in the Gospel of Mark in which the disciples tell Jesus that they tried to stop someone from driving out demons because he was not one of their party.
Jesus rebukes them saying: “There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can at the same time speak ill of me. For whoever is not against us is for us.”
The pope’s remarks were reported by Vatican Radio.
KRE/AMB END GIBSON
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		<title>Gotee Records signs Ryan Stevenson; CEO Toby Mac introduces Ryan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 11:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Gotee Records has signed acclaimed singer/songwriter Ryan Stevenson to an exclusive recording agreement. A native of the Pacific Northwest and resident of Boise, Idaho, he has been a full-time touring artist for the past two years.Stevenson’s debut single on Gotee, “Holding Nothing Back,” is available today at all digital outlets, such as iTunes and AmazonMP3. The single [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Godless funerals thrive in &#8216;post-Catholic&#8217; Ireland</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patricia Wojnar left a 32-year career in interior design to pursue a degree that wasn’t in demand: a master’s in bereavement studies. Having seen four family members die early, she wanted to understand how to adapt.]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court to hear case on prayer at government meetings</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court agreed Monday (May 20) to consider whether prayers can be offered at government meetings — a practice that’s been common in Congress and throughout the states for more than two centuries.]]></description>
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		<title>Can grief be a mental illness? With new diagnostic changes, maybe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each year 90,000 parents in the U.S. confront the profound suffering that follows the death of a child or adolescent]]></description>
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