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How about we occupy the church?
Of course the teens should occupy the church; but not just teens. Us! We should occupy the church! We should demand a better church! We should lay claim to our leadership of an institution that today only benefits some! Brian Kirk asks in a column for Patheos: “Should we help teens occupy the church?” which…
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The parable you never knew
Sandwiched between two of Jesus’s most famous parables is a small teaching about a lost coin. And it cracks the whole thing wide open. Two of the most recognizable parables sandwich a poor, misunderstood parable in Luke’s gospel. A parable of revolutionary proportions, often mistaken for an afterthought. A small, instructive parable that speaks today…
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Forward living or backward obsessing?
My brain is intent on proving me wrong. More than a decade ago, when my two closest friends were living in East Lansing, I moved down to join them. Having only visited the apartment once or twice, and not knowing the area very well, I was confident that I knew the way to get there;…
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Oh the humanity! Facebook & change
Another Facebook update hit us yesterday and you would have thought that it took away everyone’s birthdays. Calamity! They changed the feed so that top stories are at the top. Oh. My. Gosh! Better quit; we can’t have Facebook be more useful or intuitive! Yes, I like change and I’m hoping by this time that…
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Defending the status quo?
Over at The Lead on Episcopal Cafe…
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Even chocolate is better with bacon
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!
[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
[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…