Culture
What’s going on, who we are, and what the big deal is.
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Even chocolate is better with bacon
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2 min read
I’ll admit that meat and chocolate don’t sound like a match made in heaven. In fact…it sounds pretty repulsive. Sweet and salty is awesome. Sweet and meaty? Not so much. So who tried it first? It doesn’t matter. I tried it. I bought it in a store after a friend recommended it. So thousands at…
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Don’t like change? You’ll love this!
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2 min read
[I have written several pieces on change and encourage you to find links to them here.] There is something startling about a Christian that doesn’t like change. We have come to see our faith traditions as monolithic and unchanging. We look back through our lives and we such static behavior coming from Christianity. We are used to…
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To change is a sign of respect
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4 min read
[A couple of weeks ago I began writing about change. I argued that we are called to change and that we actually like change. You may want to go back and read them both again. Now I’m going to write about another aspect of change: intransigence.] One of the aspects of our view of change…
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Answer this
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The 9/11 Memorial isn’t our gig
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3 min read
Have you ever been to a concert in which the band invites someone up on the stage to play with them? It is a pretty exciting experience; musicians jamming together in a new way, making pretty spectacular music. Then the guy gets off of the stage and they go back to playing. He leaves, even though the…