Category: Faith and Life
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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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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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Liturgy of Cups and Paths
:July 14-20
Some lift the cup in joy, in contentment, or in peace; Others lift it in bitterness, or sorrow, or pain. May each one sense you near, within reach, close as the cup in the hands.
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Liturgy from Solitude
:July 7-13
As you journey through these days, May you be aware of the God who journeys with you, The God who journeys with all, In all times and all seasons.
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Liturgy of Nearness
:June 30-July 6
Eternal glory to the Father, the Son and the Spirit of God. So it was at the dawning of the world. So it is in the moments we live. So it will be to the ages of ages. Eternal glory to the Three who are One.
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#3: Under the Christian Nationalist Tent (or, Finding Empathy)
You’d be forgiven for thinking that if this kid was what a soldier in the Lord’s army looked like, you didn’t love our chances. Nonetheless, we all thought we were doing the Lord’s work.
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Bad Ideas: A Curse is Upon You!
by Adam and Renée Benner For each of his years at Hogwarts, Harry Potter had a different Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. There was the conniving Quirrell, the haughty Gilderoy Lockhart, the sinister Barty Crouch (disguised as Mad-Eye Moody), the poisonous Delores Umbridge, even Professor Snape. But the one I always felt sorry for…
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Good Ideas: Holy Lit, Not Holy Writ
There might be a better way to read the Bible than as a set of useful memory and life verses.
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The ‘Deconstruction’ Thing vs. ‘Assurance’
There was a kind of calculus in operation in the evangelical churches in which I grew up. The equations had been balanced, the variables accounted for, the formulas distilled. Questions and problems of theology had been answered and resolved, then slotted neatly into clockwork systems, with every ‘t’ crossed and every ‘i’ dotted.
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The ‘Deconstruction’ Thing: Maybe it’s God’s Work
Are there in evangelicalism enough question marks, enough bad habits, enough dubious practices, enough blind spots, enough patches and shortcuts and hacks and rotting beams and decaying joists, that deconstruction is necessary? And if that’s the case, then could deconstruction be God’s work?