Author: Adam Lee Benner
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Thieves of the Forest: A Parable
Soon, though, they realized all was not well in the forest. Huge swathes of woodland vanished, seemingly overnight; only shallow stumps remained to prove trees were ever there. Wildlife numbers dwindled. Even once-mighty rivers slowed to a trickle further downstream.
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No, We Don’t Know What’s Going to Happen – and That’s a Gift
Humans can’t predict the future. Rather than fret about what the Trump administration may or may not do, let’s choose how we want to live.
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Can We Find Christian Hope in a Trump Victory?
With each successive layer, Evangelicals might just bury their own system a little deeper. Perhaps another Trump presidency will show that American Evangelicalism is a long-dead corpse, the plug of whose life-support should have been mercifully kicked out of the wall decades ago, a corpse that deserves to be buried. And many more who don’t…
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#10: U.S. History and Two Religions for the Price of One
Students in public schools and I were essentially co-worshippers in the same religion: the religion of nationalism – one with its own saints, scriptures, sacred shrines and holy days. Christian nationalism’s only innovation was to overlay Christian tenets and pretend the two religions were one.
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Liturgy of the Clock
Giver of life, Present everywhere and filling all things, Let us today savour the breeze, Gliding softly past our faces, One of countless moments We too frequently ignore…
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#9: In Christian Nationalism, Jesus is Underemployed
Sitting comfortably up there in a rolling chair, Jesus gives us a knowing wink as we get about the very messy business of day-to-day political wrangling, ready to give his blessing to our actions. And at the end of it all, he’s there to forgive us for the countless times we brazenly cross moral and…
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A Cost of Living Liturgy
Give us your eyes, that we might see beyond ourselves. Give us your hands, that we might remain generous. Give us your heart, that we might feel others’ needs. Give us your resources to meet the needs we can.
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The Led Zeppelin Liturgy
Glory to the Father of the four winds, who fills our sails As we cross the sea of years.
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Liturgy of Unheralded Saints
:July 18-24
To the One who sees: We have traversed our world unnoticed by the world. We have pursued endeavours, unlauded and unsung. We have walked by unlit roads As mere sojourners and wayfarers…
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Liturgy of True Allegiance
The kingdoms of the world have become the kingdom of our God and of his Son, whose glory will be known to the ends of the earth, to the end of the age, and throughout all ages to come.