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Life, death, and me; or am I SOL if I kill somebody?
Many of us are taught that God loves us no matter what. Then hear how God hates us and wants us dead. Something seems to get lost in the translation.
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How Come I Never Hear About Christian Hope?
Christian Hope? Really? If I didn’t know any better, I’d think Christians were the world’s most pessimistic people. The world is always ending. But not in that good way. In the hold-off-the-armies-of-satan way. The depictions of Christians in the news are often our most deplorable people. The ones always after minorities to change their behavior…
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If God Is Love, What’s With All the Hate?
It’s a good question. If we believe God is love, how can there be so much hate? In the world? Among Christians? What does it say about us when we consider the old song “They will know we are Christians by our love” or Jesus’s instruction in John 13:35: By this everyone will know that…
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More Than Parenting, Loving
The book had the most evocative title. It really seemed like it was written for me. Parenting Without Regret. Such a powerful statement in three words. And I felt the subtitle in my gut: “Raising Kids With Purpose, Not Perfection”. Deep and poignant. But when I picked up the book, I thought: This is like…
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Christian Love is Pornographic
AMERICAN CHRISTIAN PORN STARS or Christian Love is Pornographic We appeal to tradition but Sola Scriptura. We appeal to history but not institutions. We appeal to clear readings but not readings which are clear to me. We appeal to Jesus but not his followers. We appeal to creation but not the world. We appeal to…
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When Love Overcomes Fear
For he was not only feral: he was naked. Not even human. But when they see him, he is clothed and “in his right mind.” Instead of feeling joy and excitement, they fear him. They fear Jesus. They fear that he actually is human. A restored humanity and the work of restoring the whole communityProper…
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New Love For a Change
The mistake we make is to think that GOD never changes. But GOD is always looking for a new thing, new creations, new love. And more to the fact, we are perpetually confronted with the same challenge: to produce the new thing, the new creation, the new love.
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Jesus’s Love Revolution
Superman isn’t swooping in. The heavens aren’t opening and the army of angels are not going to ride in here in front of you and slaughter all of our enemies. The Triumphal Entry and the incarnating of GOD’s dream Palm Sunday C | Luke 19:28-40 As most of you know, our tradition, beginning in the…