Category: everyday Christian life
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Faith is a seed, not a graft
When there are generations of moral failures in our family, what hope is there for us? It turns out, the shape of our our spiritual family tree looks dramatically different than that of our physical family tree. An example: His great-great grandfather had blood on his hands. His great-grandfather started out strong, but the bloat…
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The false promise of Prosperity Parenting
When Christian Boomers and Gen-Xers became parents, the influential voices of people like Dr. James Dobson and Gary and Anne Marie Ezzo offered us iron-clad principles that seemed to promise parenting success. The rise of the home schooling movement in the 1980’s and 1990’s brought another crop of parenting “experts” to the fore in those…
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Spit
I sat on an empty bench on a busy city sidewalk while I waited to meet up with some friends, soaking up the midday sunshine and enjoying that delicious sense of invisibility that comes with people-watching. Everyone was on their phones, leaving a trail of bits of conversation in their wake, their purses and backpacks…
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Social distancing with Jesus
He was weary of watching the world from afar. He’d never made peace with the fact that he had no choice but to be an observer, not since that first snow-white patch appeared on his foot. He obediently presented himself to a priest for examination, never really imagining the verdict that would be pronounced over…
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The Church should ________
The Church should ________ – Assist the poor. It’s should be our job, not that of the government. – Take care of victims of abuse. We can do better than a secular social service agency will. – Fight the darkness and anti-Christian orientation of our culture. We need to return to our Judeo-Christian roots. –…
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You say ‘Horseface’, and I hear…
…every stick-and-stone word ever flung my way. Yesterday, our Tweeter-in-Chief lobbed one of his never-ending word grenades at a woman with whom he’d had a consensual intimate relationship, calling Stephanie Clifford/Stormy Daniels “Horseface”. We all know this wasn’t a one-off thing; he has a long history of giving opponents all sorts of demeaning nicknames, with…