Saving Our Lives … and the World
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Does our faith require us to walk away from our lives, hop a plane to an impoverished nation, and start digging wells and building hospitals? Sometimes
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Love – Advent 2011
I sometimes wonder if we get caught up in the commercialism of Christmas to the extent that we do simply because we’ve come to believe that there’s very little we can do to bring about either “peace on earth” or something as modest as peace in our own small corner of it.
Continue readingKeep It Simple – a Lesson for the Progressive Church
The principle of simplicity has always seemed to be beyond the ability of the mainline church. Will the “progressive” church fair any better?
Continue readingAnother Year Over
Transforming the world isn’t up to God, or to evolutionary good luck. It’s up to us.
Continue readingThere Is No God
God doesn’t work like an engineer, setting up rules to be turned into dogma.God works like an artist, filling in the canvas with ever-changing brushstrokes
Continue readingOur Temptations
When we look beyond the literal, we find that Jesus’ temptations are, in fact, our temptations.
Continue readingSo Much of a Little Bit
“There’s a little bit of good in the worst of us, and a little bit of bad in the best of us.” You may have heard this before. It’s a variation on a saying by Robert Louis Stevenson. We need to remember that we don’t need to be perfect in order to do good. And that no matter how hard we try there are going to be times that little bit of bad means that we fail to live up to our own expectations.
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