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Is It Time for Christianity to Go?
As if the comments by Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri last week weren’t bad enough Tom Smith, the Republican running for Senate in Pennsylvania, made things worse for himself while actually attempting to...
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Authority and Mindlessness
As my regular readers and the listeners to my podcast can attest, I have been experiencing a fair amount of cognitive dissonance this election cycle over the number of self-proclaimed Christians who...
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Wussies for Jesus
“Whatever you do, don’t offend my friends.” That was the essence of the private message I got from somebody on Facebook last Friday when I responded in a supportive way to a comment he had made. It...
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A Language Problem
Wednesday was Ash Wednesday in the Christian Calendar, the beginning of the season of Lent. Lent has traditionally been understood as a time of repentance and conversion of heart. Unfortunately, that...
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Who Was This Jesus?
My latest effort on The Buddhist Christian: http://buddhist-christian.blogspot.com/2013/10/who-was-this-jesus.htmlFiled under: authenticity, Jesus Tagged: belief, doctrine, honesty, jesus
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Jesus
I have been engaged in a project this year to read a classic work of Christian spirituality each month. One of the unanticipated challenges of that project is slogging through the beliefs of people who...
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I Don’t Know Your Jesus
I have become impressed lately with how many Jesuses there seem to be. Almost everyone seems to have their own little Jesus, and about all they have in common is that they have little, if anything, to...
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O Holy Night
Tonight, Christians throughout the world will begin celebrating the birth of Jesus, the Christ. The celebration, like so many religious and spiritual celebrations, is replete with images of light...
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Funny, Isn’t It?
It’s kind of funny how whenever we want to act out something from Jesus’ life in our worship settings we tend to choose the kind of campy celebratory stuff like the procession on Palm Sunday or the...
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What it means….
There seems to be some confusion that I would like to clear up. The job of an ordained deacon, priest, bishop, and lay person is to follow Jesus. Jesus never said “don’t cuss.” Jesus hung out with...
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