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Keeping the point the point
We have a tendency to focus on the negative. Thinking it’s what we’re supposed to do. It’s actually a distraction.
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How political should your church be?
It’s a simple question. Well, at least many of us treat it like it is. Not at all, we say. Separation of Church and State. A lot, we say. We are called to change the world. How we answer the question often reveals not only what we think of church and politics, but where we…
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A Postscript on Starting to Deconstruct Church
My favorite part of exploring ideas is seeing how ideas affect other people. The other day I shared an article suggesting that instead of tinkering with Daylight Savings Time or opting out of it, what if we adopted it all year round? It is not as novel a concept as one would think and has far…
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changing my name
Maybe I shouldn’t, but I just did. I changed the name of this blog. Same address, new name. The Original Name When I first started blogging with WordPress, I began with a simple notion: that our approach as the church in planning for the future was MAD (mutually-assured destruction). My argument (which I still believe)…
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Go with the flow
Conversations about energy rarely take into account the precipitating factor of our disagreement: that we long to be masters of creation. Scripture gives us an entirely different charge.
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the importance of Anne Rice’s quitting church
The news that celebrated novelist Anne Rice is quitting Christianity is no doubt be taken lightly by most of the world. In the same way that I reject caring about the gossip of celebretries, it would be quite easy to dismiss this announcement. And there might even be a few people out there that are…
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Compassion
The physical nature of the Compassionate Samaritan story can reveal a deep-rooted internal struggle in all of us.
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Theology as dialogue
I talk back to my TV. I don’t do it regularly. I also don’t expect my TV to respond. I don’t expect the actors in my favorite shows to stop, mid-script, turn their heads toward me, and respond to my comments or anything. But, from time-to-time, I need to respond. Two shows seem to draw…