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It’s All in the Funeral Details
Read more: It’s All in the Funeral DetailsI recently admitted to my coworkers that unlike many girls who seem to have many of their wedding details planned since childhood, I actually have more details of my funeral planned than my wedding. This is probably strangely morbid to most people, but I guess for me, it has become quite normalized to think about…
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Leviticus: Much ado about Homosexuality
Read more: Leviticus: Much ado about HomosexualityAs one of my good friends says: “’God loves all his children’ is somehow forgotten. But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five-hundred years ago.” Actually, Macklemore said that, and he’s not one of my good friends, but I like to think if he got to know me he would really like me—but I digress. I…
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What really happens at Hume Lake
Read more: What really happens at Hume Lake[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=”” animation=”” animation_delay=”” fullwidth=”no” bg_type=”solid_color” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” video_texture=”” fw_columns=”” fw_same_height=”” border=”” waved_border_top=”” waved_border_bottom=”” top_margin=”0″ bottom_margin=”0″][vc_column width=”1/1″ animation=”” animation_delay=””][vc_column_text]This past week I had the opportunity to experience Hume Lake as a counselor. With nervous excitement, I made the almost 5 hour trip on a bus full of ecstatic kids aging from 4th grade to…
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Why I Kissed Christian Fiction Goodbye (Part One)
Read more: Why I Kissed Christian Fiction Goodbye (Part One)I grew up, like most Christians, immersed by Christian culture. Left Behind books, Kirk Cameron movies, Tee-shirts with Christian knock-off slogans. Half of me lived in this realm, the other half lived in secular culture. Stephen King, Jim Carey movies, and non-knock off tee-shirts. All people, Christian or not, care about culture. We want our…
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Five Reasons Thesis Writing is Nothing Like Running a Marathon
Read more: Five Reasons Thesis Writing is Nothing Like Running a MarathonTime and again, through the course of my studies at the PhD level, I have heard the phrase “Remember, it’s not a sprint but a marathon” used metaphorically to describe the process an individual engages in when writing a PhD thesis (especially here in the UK). I thought, as part of an exercise of writing…
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#Love
Read more: #LoveUnless you have been off-line for the last few weeks, the 21st century equivalent of living under a rock, it would be hard to miss the ongoing celebration of love that has swept America. The context of this is, of course, the recent SCOTUS ruling on same-sex marriage. Pithy sayings well worthy of the hashtag…
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The American Church: Ark or Kingdom?
Read more: The American Church: Ark or Kingdom?At many points in its colored history, the church’s unity and its holiness have appeared to come into conflict. On one side, people argue, “The only way we can call ourselves holy, is by staying united. Unity is holiness.”
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Inside Out and the Power of Emotions
Read more: Inside Out and the Power of EmotionsJoy. Sadness. Anger. Disgust. Fear. These emotions are the key figures in Disney’s film, Inside Out. Last week, I watched the movie and enjoyed the interplay between the different emotions as characters inside Riley’s head. The movie shows how the different emotions operate and communicate inside of her, and how each of her memories are…
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The Subversive Christian
Read more: The Subversive ChristianIn the first century Jewish believers were awaiting the day when the Messiah would come and defeat Rome, end the exile, establish the kingdom of God, and bring the new covenant. Jesus fulfilled all of those roles of Messiah, but not in the manner in which it was expected.
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Practical Wisdom for the Modern Christian from a Crime-Solving Priest
Read more: Practical Wisdom for the Modern Christian from a Crime-Solving PriestFather Brown, a delightful gift of G. K. Chesterton’s imagination (and not to be mistaken with the clever Encyclopedia Brown), is an unassuming genius in a clerical collar with an old ordinary umbrella who at one point in his life was able to summarize any page of St. Thomas’ Summa Theologica. Although Father Brown is…