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Creator of all, before the words that transformed work into a a curse, you gave labor to man and woman as a gift full of dignity and meaning. And even after the great rent in the relationship, but immediately before…
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Sign of our times, Round Lake edition
Based on my July 11 post at the Christianity Today her.meneutics blog entitled “Would Jesus Walk Away From A Mortgage?”, you can imagine that this red notice that appeared this morning on my next-door neighbor’s front door did not bring…
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Review: Reluctant Pilgrim
The subtitle this 181-page spiritual memoir is “A Moody, Somewhat Self-Indulgent Introvert’s Search for Spiritual Community”, which perhaps may feel as though the book’s cover information gives away the proverbial ranch. But Reluctant Pilgrim (Fresh Air Books, 2010) is far…
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Laps
One foot in front of the other. Again. The tracks their feet had made during the silent marches of the days before today were beginning to wear a rut in the sun-baked ground surrounding the walled city. Fully-armed men marching,…
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Review: With
“Christianity isn’t a religion. It’s a relationship.” If you’ve spent any time at all in the evangelical world, you’ve probably heard some version of those words. In his book With: Reimagining the way you relate to God (Nelson, 2011) Pastor…
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Women can. Should they?
I am currently reading Carolyn Custis James’ thoughtful call to action entitled Half The Church: Recapturing God’s Global Vision For Women, which is an invitation for kingdom women to respond with kingdom intelligence, passion and action to the injustice in…