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The Saving Life of Christ

There is something which makes Christianity more than a religion, more than an ethic, and more than the idle dream of the sentimental idealist.  It is this something which makes it relevant to each one of us right now as a contemporary experience.  It is the fact that Christ Himself is the very life content [...]

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Giving It Up for Lent: Power, Control, and Bullying

As I mentioned in here, I’m reading Maggi Dawn’s book, Giving it Up: Daily Bible Readings from Ash Wednesday to Easter Day as a devotional guide during Lent.
In reflecting on the third and final temptation of Jesus in the wilderness in Matthew 4:8-11, she writes:
Misusing power to take control is a temptation that comes to [...]

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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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Wired for War: Thoughts on a Robotic Revolution

Previous advancements in the human capacity to kill have dealt with the how – how the system, machine, technique can go faster, further, or bigger.  The use of increasingly advanced robotic deals with the who – who is actually fighting our very human wars.  So says Peter W. Singer in this thought-provoking video:

He asks some [...]

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Baptism and Symbolism

In the life of a church, baptisms are wonderful snap-shots of God’s grace!  They’re all unique, and yet they all share certain things in common.  Here are my “Top 3″ symbols of baptism:

Washing.  A new follower of Jesus understands that he or she is cleansed.  We believe that Jesus Christ died in our place on [...]

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A Visual Representation of Civil Religion

Part of me can’t believe this image exists (ht Matt Stone), but part of me knows this is the state of “Christianity” in America — American-ianity.
The peasant carpenter Messiah of the Bible has been co-opted by a middle-class religious mechanism.  The rebel-Jesus has been neutered and propped up as a chaplain/endorser/cheer-leader for a nationalist agenda [...]

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How Would You Introduce God?

Comedian Steve Harvey takes a shot at introducing Jesus in this video.  What about you, if you could introduce Jesus to an expectant audience, how would you do it?
Enjoy:

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Helen Prejean on the Threat of Jesus

Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, briefly discusses the threatening, revolutionary teachings of Jesus.

I love when she says:  If Jesus had been just a “dreamy preacher” and everyone was just sitting around campfires with guitars, that would have been no threat at all!

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