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Please stop saying “The Science”
When your child asks why she should brush her teeth, do we ever simply say “because the science says to”? Of course not. That’s ridiculous. While your kid is really trying to get out of brushing her teeth, she is also doing so because she doesn’t have any context for oral health. She hasn’t seen…
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Immediately
Mark’s gospel uses the word “immediately” a lot. But what if it isn’t literal or a figure of speech? What if the evangelist is getting us to see beyond our reality–to where the kin-dom already is? How the immediacy of Jesus reveals the presence of the kin-dom Epiphany 4B | Mark 1:21-28 Time travel. It’s…
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Neil deGrasse Tyson’s prophetic moment – Zack Hunt and Cosmos
I love taking the opportunity to share a post I would’ve written. Even better is when it is a post about finding GOD in the unlikeliest of places, including from the lips of a noted skeptic. That’s my kind of work. Zack Hunt nails it this time with his “A Lesson On Faith From Neil…
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Creationism Isn’t Christian
No, I didn’t watch Bill Nye debate Ken Ham. I’m not interested. Besides, it wasn’t for me. It was for two kinds of people: crazy confused people and people who think they have to listen to crazy confused people to be a good Christian. That may sound pretty crass, but this wasn’t a mainstream debate. This…