Romans 13:1-7 Rendering Unto Caesar
Click here for audio. Sermon Text: Romans 13:1-7 at CTK, October 26, 2008 WHERE OUR HOPE LIES Good morning. Elliot has been preaching
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On Communes and Commuter Conversion
Christian communal set-ups like this one reported in the New York Press inevitably spring up, and I wish them all the best on
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Shallow is the New Deep
Here is a smart article by Nicholas Carr from this month’s Atlantic Monthly. I cited it in a sermon last Sunday in reference
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The New Revised Gospel of Judas
I recommend Thomas Bartlett’s account of the fallout from last year’s Gospel of Judas fiasco. What is interesting is how the “dream team”
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The Denial of Death
In a piece entitled “Why I Had to Lie to My Dying Mother,” Susan Sontag’s son David Rieff relates the painful process and
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“Still think it’s so cool?”
With the very probable chance that we will see a Democratic presidential nominee who is a heavy smoker, it might pay to take
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Whose Balfour Declaration? Which Intifada?
Robert Irwin is not lying when he says, “So many academics want the arguments presented in Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) to be true.”
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Katie Couric and Modern Aramaic
The claim that modern Aramaic is the language of Jesus over-reaches a bit, but the dialect of Jesus does belong to the same
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The ones that got away
No Thanks, Mr. Nabokov By DAVID OSHINSKY (New York Times) In the summer of 1950, Alfred A. Knopf Inc. turned down the English-language
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Fellows Working
Herein lies the first post of a tentative experiment with the blog phenomenon. Can one be more non-committal? Let me try: the title
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