Category: Culture
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A Better Party?
Yesterday, I watched former President Obama’s speech to the Democratic National Convention. And I found myself bemused in the early goings. President Obama waxed eloquently about the “North Star that would guide future generations…to better realise our highest ideals” which was “embedded” in our great Constitution. Yes, admittedly, that holy document didn’t stop power from…
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White Evangelicals: It’s Time to Own Our Choices
We white American Evangelicals should take responsibility for the situation we’ve fostered and the president we’ve enabled.
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Hope Less?
To put it in the most raw and unvarnished terms, watching this shitshow leaves a flat, cynical sensation where hope used to be. But I want to put my rally cap back on.
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Who’s the Goat?
I would get within a hair’s breadth of defeating Bowser once and for all, before my game of Super Mario Brothers would freeze up. I don’t have to tell you how frustrating that is. Restarting my Nintendo Entertainment system, blowing the dust from the back of the cartridge and the console’s cartridge slot – nothing worked….
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The Kingdom Series: Non-Violence and the Cross
When you try to separate Jesus’ crucifixion from his teachings on non-violence, you overlook a critical aspect of his death.
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The Kingdom Series: A Kingdom-Shaped Hole
The Kingdom of God is the key focus of scripture and the message of Jesus. That’s why I’ll be writing exclusively about the Kingdom for the next year. This is the first in that series: What do we lose when we lose the Kingdom?
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Civil War?
Yeah, maybe Jim Bakker has completely lost the plot. Christians aren’t going to start a civil war. We’re already in a war – just not the one the Christian right thinks we’re in.
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Is President Trump REALLY Changing Christianity?
In an article in the Washington Post, John Fea considers how much the new president is changing the face of Christianity in the United States. But I wonder if it hadn’t changed already.
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What’s Your Identity?
If Paul wrote us a letter, he might remind us that, in Jesus, there are no more Americans and Mexicans, Westerners and Middle Easterners, Republican and Democrat, citizen and immigrant…but would we listen?
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And Who is My Neighbour?
The legal expert asked the question, but he wasn’t thrilled with Jesus’s answer. His response to the “Who is my neighbour?” question might make us uncomfortable too.