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What is essential
Over the past few weeks I have listened to an argument online about the problems of evangelicalism. Two books that recently came out have seemed to arrive at different solutions because they perceive two different problems with evangelicalism. The Holy Post Podcast weighed on the books, the authors, and more in this episode and it is worth the listen. One…
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God doesn’t need soldiers
Some thoughts from Pope Leo XIV: ” Brothers, sisters… I speak to you, especially to those who no longer believe, no longer hope, no longer pray, because they think God has left.
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Remember the poor
As I began to reflect HERE about Pope Leo XIV’s choice of name and possible direction of his papacy, I wanted to reflect more on Pope Leo XIII and the encyclical, “On Capital and Labor” written in 1891.
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The public square and Christian voices
I am grateful for solid Christian thinkers and communicators who stand in the public square to bring solid comment to our current cultural messes.
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Living into Kingdom Order
NT Wright’s new book, The Challenge of Acts, is a needed word for our time. In a day when we, as segments of American Christianity, are striving for “cultural order” (and calling it “kingdom”), we need our lives centered on Kingdom order.
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The new creation is enacted
From N.T. Wright’s new book, The Challenge of Acts: When we put chapter 2 together, then, we find that the ancient promises about God filling the whole creation with his wisdom and glory have become focused on Jesus and his followers. The small sketch of the church in verse 42 functions eschatologically: Jesus’ followers become a small working model of…
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Bonhoeffer, the Barmen Declaration, and resistance
The Confessing Church in Germany saw the dangers of Nazism encroaching and in 1934, leaders met in the city of Barmen-Wuppertal to put together a declaration that would magnify their Christian convictions and point out areas of dissent.
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Bonhoeffer’s powerful question
Bonhoeffer asked this significant question in the early 1930s. It is one I constantly ask in my decades of following Christ as well:
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What is your life?
16 Then he told them a story: “A rich man had a fertile farm that produced fine crops. 17 He said to himself, ‘What should I do? I don’t have room for all my crops.’ 18 Then he said, ‘I know! I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger ones. Then I’ll have room enough to store all my wheat and other goods. 19 And I’ll sit back…
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The bravery and anxiety of closing a church
Then I told them once more, “Go in peace to love and serve your neighbors.” I know that I may never see some of those people ever again.
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