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Truth Is Not An Abstract Idea

I’ve written on this blog before about truth.  I’m “in process,” developing my thinking on this divisive concept (is it absolute, relative, or something in between?), but I thought this quote from N.T. Wright was helpful, if not provocative:
Truth is like health.  A doctor doesn’t keep ‘health’ in his or her back pocket simply to [...]

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The Power of Narrative

“Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the old myths and becomes the preferred story, one so inclusive that it gathers all the bits of our past and our present into a coherent whole, one that even shines [...]

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The Boundaries of God’s Grace: Toward a Larger Vision of Truth

In preparing to speak this Sunday on Luke 4:22-30, I’m struck by the ways Jesus (then and now) challenges our boundaries and blows open the scope of his grace.
The Quaker author and activist, Parker Palmer, writes in The Company of Strangers: Christians & the Renewal of America’s Public Life:
“At the heart of any authentic religious [...]

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