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Made in the image of God?

| Mar 6, 2013

But what about the minds that made the cell phone? If a cell phone has billions of transistors, your brain has hundreds of billions of tiny neurons, many multiples more than the most complex computer has transistors. Each neuron has tens of thousands of complex interconnections.
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Father Knows Best: Do words lose their meaning if we re-define them?

| Mar 5, 2013

A recent Pew Report found that 38 percent of people who identify as atheist/agnostic believe in God or a Universal Spirit. I have to scratch my head at that statistic. If we're all going to assign our own idiosyncratic meanings to words, then what do they even mean?
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Why pluralism is a conservative value

| Mar 5, 2013

Ecumenism often becomes a meaningless social or religious platitude and at its worst a Trojan horse when it is misunderstood or misused. I think many people try to force an ecumenical cohesiveness when we should be fostering a pluralistic engagement.
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Two opportunities for grace

| Mar 3, 2013

It’s been a long time since I wrote anything in the style of a blog. I wanted to come back to it, but the expectation for comebacks seems to demand epic moments and powerful stories. If I waited for that muse, my comeback would never occur. With that disclaimer, I offer a new beginning of Standing at the Door.
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Two opportunities for grace

| Mar 3, 2013

It’s been a long time since I wrote anything in the style of a blog. I wanted to come back to it, but the expectation for comebacks seems to demand epic moments and powerful stories. If I waited for that muse, my comeback would never occur. With that disclaimer, I offer a new beginning of Standing at the Door.
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Jesus uncrosses our hypocrisies

| Feb 28, 2013

Violence as solution seduces us into a dim red light room of our desires. At the core, we believe in the power of death and oppression for our enemies.
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The importance of feminine wisdom

| Feb 28, 2013

When I look at the luminaries, from Emma Curtis Hopkins and Myrtle Fillmore to Louise Hay and Jean Houston, who have been an integral part of both the New Thought Movement and the development of Centers for Spiritual Living, I recognize that without them there may not have been a New Thought movement at all.
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Why David and Bathsheba is the Bible’s best love story

| Feb 27, 2013

David and Bathsheba is one of my favorite stories of love in the Bible because it best represents the jacked up world of relationships that we humans create. It's a perfect example of the reality of human brokenness and how God works out judgment and mercy into the mess of our lives.
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Women, power, glory and authority

| Feb 26, 2013

We all knew the last question in the course. The whole course was preparing us to answer it. I answered no; women should not have authority in the church.
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Father Knows Best: Paul’s idea of marriage creeps me out

| Feb 26, 2013

In this edition of Father Knows Best a reader asks what FKB thinks about Paul and Ephesians 5, where it says, "just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their husbands in everything." FKB says there are creepy parts of the Bible, but that we need to "wrestle with the Bible in its messy entirety."
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