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Saved by One Man’s Sacrifice
We are saved by the death of Jesus! All Christians believe this. This is a central tenet within the Christian faith and the center of almost all Christian iconography. Jesus’
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Sublimation And The Sublime
Celebration is a paradoxical thing, created by a dynamic interplay between anticipation and fulfillment, longing and inconsummation, the ordinary and the special, work and play. Life and love must be
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On Blessed and Cursed Consciousness
There’s a Buddhist parable that runs something like this: One day as the Buddha was sitting under a tree, a young, trim soldier walked by, looked at the Buddha, noticed
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Following Jesus – According to the Letter or the Spirit?
I work and move within church circles and find that most of the people I meet there are honest, committed, and for the most part radiate their faith positively. Most
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Building an Ark
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you. You will recognize these words as the opening lines of Rudyard Kipling’s
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Straining for Sabbath amidst the Demands of Phones and Computers
A comedian recently quipped that today’s information technologies have effectively rendered a number of things obsolete, most notably phone-books and human courtesy. That’s also true for human rest. Today’s information
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Tormenting the Cat
Eighty-five years ago, G. K. Chesterton looked at his society and saw some things that disturbed him. Here’s his comment: There comes an hour in the afternoon when the child
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Some Hymns for Justice
The great Jewish prophets, the forerunners of Jesus, coined a mantra which ran something like this: The quality of your faith will be judged by the quality of justice in
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Rolling the Dice on the Gospel
They hadn’t understood about the loaves! The Gospels use those words to describe the crowd that Jesus had miraculously fed with five barley loaves and two fish. They ate, but
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Chastity As Purity Of Heart And Intention
To live a chaste life is not easy, not just for celibates, but for everyone. Even when our actions are all in line, it is still hard to live with
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