Religion and Spirituality
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Experiential Teaching Is Not For the Weak
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2 min read
There is something about this story about a “fake kidnapping” that seems strangely wrong. Not in the idea of terrorizing youth or in the idea that we are an “overly judicious” society. There is something else. Toward the end, we get the defense: “It was a youth event, to illustrate what others have encountered on…
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Best Response to Doubters Yet
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1 min read
Tom Ehrich has written the best response yet to the anti-mainline and doom-and-gloom forecasts. Conservative commentators like Rupert Murdoch’s stable and Ross Douthat of The New York Times are feasting on what they perceive as the “death” of “liberal Christianity.” They add two and two and get eight. They see decisions they don’t like — such…
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Please Don’t Give Up On Us!
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3 min read
They aren’t The Church of England. Those few bishops that spoke on behalf of the church the other day aren’t the church. I know what they wrote was juvenile and mean. Their logic couldn’t pass a eighth grade class in philosophy, let alone sociology, civics, or history. Even though they went out of their way to…
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What the Crowd Tells Us
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1 min read
In Sunday’s gospel (Mark 3:20-35), we get several different ways of addressing what Jesus means by family. In this video, I give my pitch for the crowd.
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I’m Not Preaching Trinity Sunday
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Liberating Pentecost
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1 min read
Liberating Pentecost by David R. Henson is a must read before Sunday!