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Marshawn Lynch cast as Jesus in new made for tv biblio-epic…
Caveat: A sarcastic/April Fools/Tuesday in Holy Week/on the verge of blasphemous offering… On this day 2000ish years ago Jesus was being repeatedly interrupted as he taught, hazed by the different...
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On the commemoration of St. Catherine of Siena
Catherine of Siena, 1347-1380 “Love transforms one into what one loves.” Dialogue 60 In a day where people complain that they cannot be a super man or a super woman, we have Catherine of Siena: The...
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Gimme-gimme Golfball
Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Central Phoenix The Central Phoenix neighborhood I grew up in had its fair share of characters. It would not be inaccurate to say that we were a virtual pantheon...
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How I became an atheist. And why it didn’t work out for me.
I have a friend who says he was raised an apathetic. “Apathetic” makes a pretty good description of me growing up as well. I was not an agnostic – someone convinced that God is unknowable. I had no...
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The True Cross
Is the cross a sign of your life? You probably missed it. It didn’t show up in most calendars and you would have to have been born under a lucky star to have heard it mentioned in the media. Monday...
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What is truth?
Our cultural “believies” and the war against fundamentalism. Unless you have spent the last two weeks living under a rock you have been stunned by the violence in the name of religion. This is not the...
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Predestination for Dummies
Weighty theology made simple(r) If there is a $64,000 question in the Christian faith it is predestination. When it comes to God, who chooses whom? To consider this age old question look at the passage...
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Game Shows: The True Cross in a “like” culture.
Have you noticed how fuzzy the idea of “truth” has become? Things are no longer “true” in any objective sense. They are, as Stephen Colbert said, “truthy” – true enough…ish. Sort of. Our social media...
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Watching our Culture Die: Where the secular culture went wrong and what...
We have all become spectators of our culture. It is fascinating and disturbing – like the accident you cannot avert your gaze from. Are things as bleak as they appear? One way to get perspective on a...
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Big Papa.
In a world of unique individuals my father might have been the uniquiest. He was a high roller who hit it big. Twice. He also hit rock bottom. Twice. Unfortunately that last hit was a doozy. After...
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Four Christmas Gifts that Change Everything
I first realized the Santa story had holes in 1977. I was in the 6th grade, an embarrassing age not to be in on the gag. My friends, realizing my innocence, enlightened me with the subtlety one expects...
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When God Goes the Wrong Way
The “triumphal entry” of King Jesus into Jerusalem was through the back gate. Ironically, at roughly the same time, the other key player in the drama, Roman Governor Pontius Pilate, would have been...
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Good Friday: The axis of the cosmos
You may have wondered why an execution is known as, “Good” Friday. Here is the spoiler: Jesus went to the cross to be able to say three words: “It. Is. Finished.” The early church believed Jesus was...
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Why the fuss over a missing body?
Were you one of the myriads who avoid Facebook at Easter? Has the wonder at all of the different ways to meme “He is risen indeed” worn off? Do you wonder why all the fuss for a missing body anyway?...
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A leader’s final address always warrants a close listen. The Sheep and Goats judgment in Matthew 25:31-46 is just that: The final section of the final sermon in the five sermons Matthew organized his...
View ArticleHistory’s First Courtroom Drama: Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” Lawyers have gotten a bad rap ever since wisecracking bad guy Dick the Butcher uttered his famous line in Shakespeare’s Henry VI. Most of us must...
View ArticleWhy are y’all calling Thursday “Monday” and going to church?
Holy Week for Newbies Several friends have asked this. I think they suspect Christians of being so out of touch with reality that we are intentionally self-trolling. “Maundy,” however, is the...
View ArticleGood Friday: The axis of the cosmos
Holy Week for Newbies Have you ever wondered why an execution is known as, “Good” Friday? The early church believed Jesus was crucified on March 25th. Further, they believed that, since re-creation...
View ArticleGood Friday: The axis of the cosmos
Holy Week for Newbies Have you ever wondered why an execution is known as, “Good” Friday? The early church believed Jesus was crucified on March 25th. Further, they believed that, since re-creation...
View ArticleThe In Between Day
Holy Saturday Today is the quiet day. In the church historic, the art for today portrays the Harrowing of Hell, Jesus making proclamation to the “spirits in prison” (1 Peter 3:18-22), trampling the...
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