Culture
What’s going on, who we are, and what the big deal is.
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Social Justice
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1 min read
Glenn Beck’s attack on justice as a theological concept and the phrase “social justice” as some code word would normally seem like the usual tinfoil-hat-wearing hyperbole that we have come to expect from his entertainment hour. But this one struck a real chord with many of us that take our faith seriously–a faith that struggles…
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The Gospel You’ve Never Heard
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2 min read
I’ve just started reading Who Really Goes to Hell–The Gospel You’ve Never Heard: What a Protestant Bible written by Jews says about God’s work through Christ by David I. Rudel. An intriguing title in itself but the caption underneath it made me all the more interested: “(A book for those in the church and those…
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Pick and choose protestors
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1 min read
Just a quick thought for a Monday morning… Why is it that the millions that protested the Iraq Conflict peacefully for years were virtually ignored by the press and totally ignored by Washington while today’s ‘protesters’, hundreds of angry and abusive anti-tax protesters, are media darlings and have Congress cow-towing to them?
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simplicity
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Through Lent, St. Paul’s is holding a Lenten Program about Simplicity. The concept, as I see it, being this: We have complicated lives and live in a complex world, but it need not be so. This complexity separates us from one another and from God. To achieve balance in our lives, we must remove what…
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I’m not laughing – for the reason you think I am
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4 min read
Church signs are my version of the car accident: I know I shouldn’t look at them, but I can’t pull my eyes away from them.