Category: Culture
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A Prayer for Pentecost 2020
On this day, we celebrate your Holy Spirit, poured out upon all flesh: reminding us of your individual love and care for every single person; each made, uniquely, in your own image and likeness.
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The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Hero White and Black America Needed, and Needs.
maybe, white America needed and needs Dr. King as much as black America did and does, to confront our privilege and unconscious racial biases, to challenge our complicit participation in societal injustices, and to awaken us to the great gift of diversity and the myriad contributions of African-Americans to American…
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A Little Embarrassed…
I’m curious what you’re reading, and if there are authors you’d recommend to diversify my reading list. Whatever you’re reading, I encourage you to diversify your reading list, as well.
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We’re ALL afraid…
Every mass shooting reignites the same debate over guns – gun owner rights vs. gun law reform. Before I go any further, I should confess I don’t own guns, and I don’t like guns. I never have, and likely never will. I don’t feel a need to own one. In…
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Is Jesus helpless?
Is it possible, these tragedies keep happening, because we’ve rendered God ineffectual by our collective disbelief? Have we, as a society, drifted so far from God, or believe so little in God, that we’ve effectively shut the door?
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Lament
I posted the following on my Facebook page in September, 2016. Someone reposted it today. I feel like I could have written it today…. Lament. “Listen to my words, Lord, consider my lament.” Psalm 5:1 For months, I’ve read many posts about issues ranging from gay marriage to the presidential election…
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Kneeling Isn’t a Sin
Kneeling, during the playing of National Anthem, may be offensive to you. It may even be wrong. But, it’s not a sin.
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Blogging silence, hard questions, passive aggression, and the Jesus-litmus test
Though I’m wrestling with loads of hard questions (for me) these days, I don’t claim to have many answers. Though I don’t claim to be absolutely “right” about much of anything, I’m increasingly convinced that we are wrong about MANY things. The litmus test for me is Jesus…
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