All in Peace, and other links

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• All in Peace at Rocky Grove "...in a wonderful way, the Rocky Grove church lives on. On the fourth Sunday in October, folks with ties to Rocky Grove return for an all-day service in memory of the church."
• Joel Osteen or Fortune Cookie? -- "...here is very little difference between Joel and those fortune cookies (except that the cookies are delicious, of course)."
• My Journey Away from Contemporary Worship Music -- "Hymns have begun to take precedent in my song selection for two reasons."
• Secularization Falsified -- "Modernity is not intrinsically secularizing, though it has been so in particular cases."
• The Futility of Representing Religion With a Bar Chart -- "It’s hard to understand faith without polling and data. But a lot can be lost in relying too much on statistics."
• The Gift of Singleness -- "...for those called to it, singleness should be received as a gift from God."
• Thoughts on Note-Taking During Sermons -- "Hearing a sermon is not like hearing a lecture."
• You Are Not Enslaved to Your Past -- "This is wonderfully freeing."
• 4 Reasons Pastor-Theologians Should Read Fiction -- "Reading takes us only so far, of course."