We struggle. We search for answers. We do not find them easily, and yet, along with our brother, Job, ‘we are not silenced by the darkness
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The Almighty has terrified me! Read More »
In 1945 Albert Einstein wrote, “I think the most important question facing humanity is, ‘Is the universe a friendly place?’” This is really the same question Job was asking 2,500 years earlier.
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Is the universe a friendly place? Read More »
there is nothing that God considers more terrible than the abuse of vulnerable people
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Should we have Mercy on the Merciless? Read More »
“Then they came to Capernaum, and when [Jesus] was in the house, he asked them, “What were you arguing about on the way?” But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another who was the greatest.” (Mark 9:33-34). It seems almost comical that a conversation about “who is the greatest” could be taking
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At Golgotha they thought that they had successfully cancelled Jesus. It only took three days for God to re-platform Him
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simple acts of sharing do challenge the toxic ideologies at work in our world. It’s certainly a good starting-point: Listen, Love, Share, Repeat.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer spoke of the need for ‘religionless Christianity’ – a faith stripped of all its non-essential elements that would better communicate to a humanity that had ‘come of age’.
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The spiritual war is not a crusade. We just have to hold the line. We just have to survive!
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If Christ is truly incarnated in this world through our flesh and blood, justice and peace will ultimately triumph.
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“O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”” (2 Samuel 18:33b) The words of David, the king, grieving over the death of his son, Absalom. No parent wants to lose their child. For David, the pain ran especially deep as he knew
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