#write31days
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Depending on who you talk to, creation is either total garbage or the blessing of God, what God called good throughout creation. What does God think of creation? Well, that probably depends on what you think God is up to. Part of the problem is many Christians see creation as being two worlds. The world…
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Hey God! What Should We Call You?
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4 min read
Christian faith and scripture presupposes we can talk with God. While this is not consistently applied in tradition, there is an expectation that we can directly address God. Even if that address is through Jesus. From the first humans in the Garden chatting with a god who walked among them to Jacob wrestling with God…
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Who Is God?
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4 min read
While this is probably the most important question of them all, it is also the one we are least equipped to answer. We’ll try. Oh yes we will. Over and over. From our experience and our learning. From reading scripture and studying the scholars. We all will try to answer that question. But we can’t.…
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Do I Have a Choice?
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3 min read
The one rule about church we had growing up was that we had to go on Sundays. Not that we had to pay attention or like it. We didn’t have to memorize or make public commitments. There was no witnessing or professing our faith. I never saw this as a hurdle or an unreasonable expectation.…
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Exit
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10 min read
When I leave a party, I always look for the host: I want to thank them. It seems respectful. It also gives me a sense of conclusion after the party. I say to myself “OK, now it is OK for me to leave.” This isn’t the only way to leave a party. The more social…
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Confession
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8 min read
“We don’t do confession.” I remember the conversations I used to have as a child about church. And it was usually how we do things differently or what is an E-piss-co-palian? Which always was accompanied with laughter. This childhood was in Alpena, a small city in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Alpena was largely Polish, then;…