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A lukewarm take on the shaming tiktok caller
The idea that churches should be a source of support for those in need is essential. How we engage with ensuring this is true is challenging.
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Maybe We’ll Get There — Proper 27C
This week’s gospel throws us into the middle of an inquisition and we need to remember that it is Jesus we’re following, not the rhetoric.
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Conflict and Trust—for Proper 21A
When Jesus is questioned about his authority, we are confronted with our own sense of it—and of trust, conflict, and how we are to each other.
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Doing Right or Being Right
It is strange how Christians celebrate martyrs. Not like lions of the faith, but as sheep slaughtered. There’s something behind that.
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Come Sunday and Our Cynical Response to Preaching
The Film, Come Sunday shows what happens when a pentecostal preacher gets a message from Jesus about Hell and how the people refuse to take responsibility for their cynical response. [This is a reflection on the church through the lens of the film Come Sunday. If you are not familiar with the story of Carlton…
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I shouldn’t have to remind you that Jesus doesn’t support nuclear war.
What’s with some Christians suddenly endorsing nuclear war? The idea pisses me off. But it doesn’t surprise me. It seems like an inevitable, given our present state. Not that war is inevitable (though I fear it may be). But that some Christians are always making it harder on the rest of us. And at the…
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On Being an Enneagram 9
ON BEING AN ENNEAGRAM 9 How strange it is to have one’s mind live in the bargaining middle. Making camp in the breach, the trenches full with soldiers shivering, drenched by the rain which falls on both, pools forming at their feet, layers soaked with misery. A strange place to build a cabin, in the…
