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Between Animus and Chaos: Lust, Longing, and Losing Our Way
I suppose this could be titled many things of a similar nature: the title chosen, Between Appetite and Unravelling, Between Ego and Diabolos.... All would pretty much go in the same direction. We live in times of radical individualism, of politics that undergird the freedom of the individual to express himself or herself (maybe itself , given all the options put forward) in whatever way supposedly best represents who they are on the inside, at their emotional/psychological

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The De-Sacralization of Space and Time
No, not a reversal of a condition of the L5 vertebra of the spine. Bigger than that. The concept has been around longer than the...

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The Word, part 4: The Last Word
And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end...” (Revelation 21:6) To get the last word in an...

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The Word, part 3: The Word in the Church's Witness
You learn a lot about people by the words they speak. Are their words true? Are they good? Are they effectual – does what they say...

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The Word, part 2: The Word Made Flesh
Words can clarify. Words can obscure. But words rightly spoken are words that build shalom – they contribute to the flourishing of the...

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The Word, part 1: The First Word
Words. It's almost impossible – okay, I'll say that it is impossible – for anyone reading this to imagine human life without words. We...

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Praying for the Royals
No, not the baseball team. The royal family of England. When Queen Elizabeth died a few weeks ago, I added two prayers to our Sunday...

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What are you doing here?
Sometimes you read something and you end up with more questions than you had before you read it. What you read was good and helpful, but...

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Drink This Cup
The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation...

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In Jesus' Name
It's more familiar to us than you might think. We are actually quite accustomed to people doing things in the name of others. It...

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Belonging
We are something of a counter-cultural community. One of our church's mission tag lines is 'Share Community.' Our others, for the...

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Coup de Grȃce
Okay, I admit it. I'm a bit of a sap for seeing pictures of grace in all sorts of places. Take for instance the ending of the movie...

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We Won't Let Hatred Grow
As is often noted, music is a powerful and persuasive communicator. It has a way of getting around and behind our defenses without our...

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From CRT to JRT (from Critical Race Theory to Joyful Race Truth)
Critical Race Theory has been quite the stir during the whole pandemic period: race defined along justice lines – oppressors and...

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The Dangers of Re-entry
History is replete with religiously minded folks that went off the deep end. Just to name a few from the last 50 or 60 years, we could...

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Wine of Cleansing
One of the typical Epiphany Gospel readings is from John 2 – the miracle at the wedding in Cana of Galilee. You know the one – where...

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Manifestations of the Divine
Epiphany. The season between Christmas and Lent. The actual Feast of the Epiphany was this past Thursday – it's always on January 6th. ...

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Not Losing Our Story
Historically, the Church has found that the greatest way to spread the faith and maintain the faith is to tell the story. And...

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Leaven
Jesus told another parable about the Kingdom. He compared its workings to the working of leaven. This parable is similar to the mustard...

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Mustard Seeds
The mustard seed. It's a very tiny seed, but it grows to be a large shrub or even a tree in warmer climates. When Jesus told the...

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