Articles by Chris Thron

January 11, 2005
The Retail Church
As American churches become more like retail stores, they're ruining communities and distorting the Gospel.

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Mark Ames
Peter Anderson
Gordon Atkinson
Margaret Atwood
Angela Balcita
Dan Barker
Timothy Beal
Teresa Blythe
Will Braun
Jason Byassee
John Tyler Connoley
Robert Cornwall
Roger Cox
Mary Beth Crain
David Dark
Denali Dasgupta
Gawain de Leeuw
Pam DiBona
Patton Dodd
Cathleen Falsani
John Fea
Robert Flynn
Franklin Foer
Billy Frolick
Ondine Galsworth
Becky Garrison
Eva Geertz
Stanley Hauerwas
Stephen Healey
Jennifer Michael Hecht
Adrian Hein
Tony Hendra
R. Joseph Hoffmann
Stephanie Hunt
Ranya Idliby
Robert Ingersoll
Tamara Jaffe-Notier
Simon Jones
Kathryn Joyce
John Mark Karr
Patricia Klindienst
Kenneth E. Kovacs
Scott La Counte
Michael Lerner
Amy-Jill Levine
Jemima Lewis
Rev. Barry W. Lynn
Bill Maher
Gordon Marino
Bill McGarvey
Matthew J. Milliner
Matthew Moran
David Nantais
Father David Nuss
Paul O'Donnell
Suzanne Oliver
Rich Pablum
Orhan Pamuk
Katha Pollitt
Puck Purnell
Uta Ranke-Heinemann
Mary Roach
Kristina Robb-Dover
Greg Ruehlmann
Dr. Robert Schwarz
Laura Sheahen
Dayne Sherman
Benjamin Shobert
J. Matthew Sleeth, M.D.
Laurel Snyder
John D. Spalding
John Sparks
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Phyllis Stine
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Chris Thron
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Mark Twain
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Jim Wallis
Priscilla Warner
Daniel J. Webster
Ben Westhoff
William Whitehead
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Everett L. Worthington, Jr.
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