suffering
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The One Rule of Preaching
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4 min read
The challenge of preaching is the challenge of communicating. We don’t always know what would be simple to understand.
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An Economics of Suffering
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6 min read
William Dwight Porter Bliss, Richard Theodore Ely, the pope, and Jesus give us a common vision for a more moral world. William Dwight Porter Bliss and Richard Theodore ElyLuke 16:19–31 I love this teaching from Jesus because it describes the problem so well. The problem being our general confusion about our place in the story.…
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Divine Suffering
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8 min read
Jesus is led into the wilderness to be tempted. Tempted with power, understanding, everything he could desire. Everything we desire.
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Ghettoed Suffering: a Reflection on World AIDS Day
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4 min read
I drove across town to Maple Avenue United Methodist Church. It was dark, cold; the streets were wet. I was running late, but thankfully it started late. The room was nowhere near full. But it was diverse. Wide variety in ages, including college students and some much older. There was also ethnic and gender diversity.…
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Looking for Change in All the Wrong Places
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8 min read
Darkness, Advent, and what the Light is really for. We need this reminder now more than ever. That we aren’t children of darkness. We are children of the light. That the darkness in the world is not imposed upon us by an angry GOD, but comes from fear and prejudice. We are the light-bearers, the…