Culture
What’s going on, who we are, and what the big deal is.
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Proof the U.S. is not a Christian Nation
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1 min read
Of course, this image demonstrates that people don’t really want to cut anything from the federal budget. Except one thing. You know, the one most Christian thing on this list. That, they want to get rid of.
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A Story of Two Lost Sons
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2 min read
There is much more to this story. There is the young man’s departure and his humble hopes for mercy, rather than reconciliation. There is the elder brother and his distrust, anger, and departure. It is a story much more robust than this one moment. This story is also the third of three stories of the…
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See the degree of inequality
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1 min read
For many of us, the notion of inequality is intolerable. A system that perpetuates poverty is an affront to our faith and belief about what we are called to do in this world. Of course not everybody has the same conviction. As this video highlights, however, virtually everybody believes the system is inappropriately rigged and…
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Bible app doesn’t get the season
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1 min read
A real push notification on my phone right now: As the Easter season begins, start a Reading Plan today Two gut responses: The “Bible” app, YouVersion doesn’t actually know that Lent begins today, not Easter? Who doesn’t get that Lent isn’t Easter? The Advent/Christmas problem is invading Lent! The world mischaracterizes Advent as the Christmas…
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When Torture Became Conventional
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5 min read
Last fall, The Walking Dead had its inevitable torture episode. It wasn’t surprising from a show that is so gleefully violent and revels in the dark recesses of the human psyche. As the story arc progressed, it became only a matter of time before one human would torture another. There was always something truly inevitable…
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Love King? Live Kingdom.
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2 min read
MLK was a visionary, not because he was a civil rights leader or because he was faith leader, but because he had vision: he understood Jesus’s vision. And he cast it out for us to see. A world in which we lived the Kingdom of GOD, not just paying it lip service. A vision in which he famously…