A Community of Joyful Exiles and Penitent Strangers
I have a post over at the Christward Collective about the dynamics of exile for the people of God living in a culture
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Public Expressions of the Gospel
Explicit public expressions of the gospel in popular culture are few and far between. We just do not see many public examples of the
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Palm Sunday and Unmet Expectations
Woody Allen famously said that 80 percent of life is just showing up. He was talking about the big plans that people make but
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Where the Morning Lies
This poem by Emily Dickinson is about a child’s question that is really a human question, a Sunday-morning congregation’s question. It struck me
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Resisting a Spirit of Lethargy Part 2
In the second of two posts of at Christward Collective on spiritual lethargy and the letter to the Hebrews (part one can be
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Global Christianity by the Numbers
The visible people of God have always been a tricky group to quantify. Does one go by mere self-identification or should there be some measure of “devotion” such as church attendance, daily prayer life, or bumper sticker collection? What’s an honest sociologist to do?
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21 for 1
The public martyrdom of twenty-one Egyptian Christians on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea was surely intended to serve the strategic purposes of ISIS
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Resisting a Spirit of Lethargy
There is a story about the basketball coach who meets his star player off the court after a particularly poor game. “Son, are you ignorant or
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The Work-Rest Balance
There is a lot of talk about the work-life balance and whether that balance is even possible. Work, after all, is a part of
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Why Christmas Is for Losers
Most people know that the religious roots of Christmas can be found in the great redemptive event of Jesus Christ’s birth or incarnation,
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