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What is the effect of Christianity on compassion?
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3 min read
Atheists are more motivated by compassion than the religious. This finding a few years ago was surprising. It led many to wonder if rising secularism would lead to a better world. Particularly when we start to see how conflict follows the religious around like a puppy. But another finding complicates that view and makes it even…
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‘An explanation of cause…’
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“An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.” –C.S. Lewis When I’m uncomfortable with a conversation, I feel myself changing. Like I can feel a little person inside my head choosing to descend to the downstairs brain, the lizard brain which needs to defend me. I know it’s happening but the rush of…
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Full of Love
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8 min read
My parents were going out on a date and I was old enough to be left home without a babysitter. Just not old enough to make good decisions. I was asking them about going to a friend’s house (he’s moving the next day! I pleaded. I won’t see him again!) They weren’t going to be home anyway,…
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One is that you care about human decency and how we get along. You care about me and don’t want to see me spiral into the abyss of outrage. Nor do you want to see another person’s outrage leveled at me. That’s why you care about the public square. You want things to go well…
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Hearts broken open
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7 min read
Why do they kill Stephen? Our lectionary jumps in at the very end of a two chapter story. A story about Stephen, our patron saint. After all the explanation of who he is, what he says, and why it makes the people angry enough to kill him, then they jump in. So let’s back up…
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“Each day…”
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“Each day wake up and ask yourself what will make you feel most alive that day.” -Unknown One of the most significant break throughs for me was realizing the phrase “eternal life” wasn’t endless spiritual immortality – the kind of never-ending boredom of existential nothingness, but something far more profound and effecting. That Jesus offers…
Make a New Normal
