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I was gossiping with a friend, but if I called it “processing” and “debriefing”, then it couldn’t be considered gossip, right? It takes a certain kind of moral gymnastics to pretzel blatant sin into a perfectly reasonable and completely justifiable…
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November newsletter
Shalom, friend! During the Passover Seder, there is a section of the service called the Four Questions that launches the recounting of the story of God’s deliverance of the Hebrew people from slavery. The first question is “Why is this…
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Reflections on The Cost of Discipleship – Chapter 2
Something tells me Dietrich Bonhoeffer wouldn’t have been a fan of the Four Spiritual Laws tract. More than 2.5 billion of these tracts have been printed and disseminated over the last few decades. The little booklet sketches four core talking…
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Reflections on The Cost of Discipleship – Chapter 1
Self-help pep talks instead of sermons in church. Spiritual leaders intoxicated by access to power. Marrying nationalism with an edited form of Christianity. This was the world in which dissident German Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived during the 1930’s and…
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Review: A Church Called Tov
Church culture matters. As we live in our culture and also into our culture, our culture begins to live in and into us. A good culture will shape us toward goodness; a toxic culture will shape us toward evil. Yes,…
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Making Change: Navigating Life’s Challenging Transitions
When unexpected challenges upend the good plans we’ve made for our lives, how can we begin to respond in faith? This five-day devotional offers a thoughtful, compassionate exploration of the subject of how we can take first steps in processing…