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Prop 8: The Musical

I have a question.  Okay, lots of questions, as you’ll soon see… Why is it that so many Christian writers and theologians refuse to answer the question, “Do we (as Christians) ‘pick and choose’ God’s laws we want to follow?” appropriately.  It doesn’t take a genius to see that we do.  So, we must answer […]

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Questioning Religion

More thoughts on David Dark’s The Sacredness of Questioning Everything.  Previous thoughts are here. Dark defines “religion” a little differently than I think most of us refer to it as, and that is as a “calling out.”  Meaning, it’s how you live your life, day to day.  So, religion can be anything, not just…well, the […]

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Women in the Church

The original posting of this hilarious and half-facetious Top 10 list came from Rick Ellis’s The Journey blog, which he took it from his ministry partner Tara Healy’s Facebook post, which I don’t have access to, because I’m not her friend! Why is it that women’s roles in the church have dwindled to almost nothing […]

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Kindness

Taken from Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem “Kindness”: Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore, only kindness that ties your shoes and sends you out into the day to mail letters and purchase bread, only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say It is I you have been […]

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The Work

Yesterday in the comments I mentioned that part of feeling compassion (and I would add to that–forgiveness and love and peace) stems from your ability to change your perspective on things.  With any therapist I’ve ever been to, the first two questions I’ve always asked (because of the tremendous pain I’ve felt over the years) […]

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