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The fresh hell of new war
Many want to paint war as virtuous, distorting the mercy of God as weak. These would steal your soul and have you thank them.
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The crazy idea that loving people actually works
People often concoct incredible scenarios to avoid dealing with the stuff Jesus is trying to say about loving the people around us.
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The Right Thing
We are always obsessed with figuring out what the right thing to do is in any given situation. When a person is killed by police, that right thing becomes even more fraught. When the killing looks like murder and we can see it with our own eyes? Well…you get it. We want to know what…
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The day after a mass shooting
We will investigate and speculate and argue and honor and then forget and move on and pretend this is all normal and unavoidable.
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When we justify evil
I know you have thoughts about the young man who shot three people in Kenosha, Wisconsin. We all do. And, in a sense, that’s all our culture offers us right now: thoughts. Disparate, unconnected, intemperate thoughts. But our thoughts often get trapped in a binary prison. We know that killing is wrong, but…and then we…
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The Confrontational Jesus
When Jesus confronts the Temple authorities, many in the west struggle to understand that the image isn’t hypocritical: it’s about justice.
