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My Friend: Right or Wrong
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2 min read
When sticking by our friends, we like to say “My friend: right or wrong!” to prove just how devoted we are. We want to show unconditional support. But most of the time we don’t actually mean unconditional support. We do have a condition: that our friends are actually decent human beings. In other words, we…
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Best Response to Doubters Yet
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1 min read
Tom Ehrich has written the best response yet to the anti-mainline and doom-and-gloom forecasts. Conservative commentators like Rupert Murdoch’s stable and Ross Douthat of The New York Times are feasting on what they perceive as the “death” of “liberal Christianity.” They add two and two and get eight. They see decisions they don’t like — such…
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A Brief, Deep Review of the Wild Goose Festival
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1 min read
I missed the Wild Goose Festival again this year, but Amy Yoder McGloughlin gives a good review, and more importantly, what it means for emergence Christianity. Phyllis Tickle is right. Something is happening in the church. There is something new emerging. And, looking back on church history, it’s not unexpected. In fact, it’s right on…
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Why I Post Liberal Jesus Stuff on Facebook
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4 min read
I like sharing funny stuff on Facebook. In a way, that’s what it is for. I also share political stuff when it is meaningful. Last week, I posted a picture that isn’t very good and I was told so. See what I mean? It’s underlying theology is immature and it strikes the receiver as brazenly…
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Who Deserves to Die?
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3 min read
Have you seen one of these posters? We’ve moved to a small town, so I haven’t. This new campaign, with posters popping up in major cities across the country is two things that really get me excited. First, it is a guerrilla marketing campaign that arrests each person that sees a single poster. You stop,…
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Ideology, Not Sense or Wisdom
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4 min read
When I wrote the other day about a lack of wisdom, I wasn’t prepared for an even more stunning thesis: that ideology would trump both common sense and wisdom. I had taken for granted that common sense was often used to support the governing ideology. In the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to uphold the already…