Ashley Madison, Public Shaming, and the Light of Christ
I preached from 1 John 1:5-10 this past Sunday, a text that has a lot to say about the implications of “walking in
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Colbert’s Divine Rapport
Stephen Colbert has been open about his Catholic faith before (here is a roundup; and that time he beat up on Bart Ehrman), and when he
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Story’s Dominance of Life
Jonathan Gottschall’s 2012 book The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make us Human (Mariner Books) begins with the line from Elie Wiesel’s The Gates of the
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How Jeremiah Leans on Deuteronomy
I have a a post up over at the Reformation 21 site discussing the influence of the book of Deuteronomy on the prophet
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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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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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God as Royal Father
I am always impressed with the quality of the production work done by Third Millennium Ministries in their online courses, so when I
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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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God is Not Fate
Dear Reader, I would just like to mention a few things about God that might help when life drives you to question his
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