Tag: christianity
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A Benediction Worth Remembering
This benediction from church last Sunday, 5/24/2026, struck me and entered right into the heart of it all for me. Life is short, And we do not have much time to gladden the hearts of those who make the journey with us. So… be swift to love, and make haste to be kind. And may…
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Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?
Give to me to read by my friend, Ken Kelly. Bad to time to be a materialist! The new atheists ended up being a lot like the fundamentalist Evangelicals. Both have lost ground to the Religion of Politics. Page 276 It’s a mistake to assume (as many people seem to do) that if something doesn’t…
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The Church Better Start Taking Nazification Seriously
“We have a choice. The Bible will not sit alongside Mein Kampf. The cross will not yield to the swastika. We must ask right now: Jesus or Hitler? We cannot have both.” What an unfortunate reality the American church, and evangelical movement specifically, will need to be confronting now. I remember reading a decent amount of…
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Real and Symbolic Power
In a recent group discussion at church, Pope Francis’s death came up. We seemed to agree, spoken and unspoken, that he was a good man. A different kind of pope. His papacy was one that restored and reordered the Catholic church. Perhaps the church catholic too. He emphasized those things which are commanded unto us…