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UPDATE: Listen to Paul’s interview with Andrew Peterson from October 14, 2010 AUDIO
Singer/Songwriter Andrew Peterson will be at Five Points Community Church at 7:00 pm On Wednesday, October 20th. Tickets are $5/person or $20/family and can be purchased ahead of time through the office or at the door the evening of the event. Call the church [...]

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UPDATE: Michael Sullivan, Executive Producer of God in America, talks with Paul about God in America. AUDIO
From PBS/FRONTLINE:
Boston, MA [August 26, 2010] Since the days when the Puritan “city on a hill” beckoned on the horizon of the New World, religious faith and belief have forged America’s ideals, molded its identity and shaped its sense [...]

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Northridge Church in Plymouth, Michigan gets a tip of the hat for performing one of the most bizarre pre-sermon skits in all of Church history. A man in a Lobster suit comes to the stage and recites the lyrics to the Beatles’ Come Together while a Mime, Little Beau Peep, a clown, Elvis, and a [...]

“I have all these memories, I don’t know what for
I have them and I can’t help it”
~ Sun Kil Moon, “Like the River”
“George: That’s not your grandfather.
Paul: It is, you know.
George: But I’ve seen your grandfather. He lives in your house.
Paul: Oh, that’s my other grandfather, but he’s my grandfather, as well.
John: How do you [...]

Randall Balmer is Professor of American Religious History at Barnard College, Columbia University. He has written several books which explore the development of political activism by people of faith, specifically conservative evangelicals.
His most recent foray into this effort is The Making of Evangelicalism: From Revivalism to Politics and Beyond (2010: Baylor University Press) in which [...]