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Andrew Sullivan thinks Christianity is in crisis. I think he’s confused the Christian gospel with some version of a Jesusy-neo-Buddhism. I'm sure this article resonates with many people hungry for deep and authentic spirituality and maybe even seekers struggling to find a coherent example of...
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Pastor Eric Blauer is the founder of Jacob’s Well, which he describes as a nondenominational church with a “neighborhood vision and city reaching vision.”
He has a graduate level degree in advanced chair set up and take down and has been known to move from bark to purr over a good dark beer or w...
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All this talk of beer was making the former seminarian thirsty.
“Cheers,” said assistant brewer Christopher McGarvey, taking a sip from his pint of golden ale. Then he continued his lecture on the history of beer in ancient Samaria to a crowd of about 90 on the third floor of this city’s Front S...
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In John 21:1-19, Jesus asks Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Why would he ask Peter this question? And, why three times? This question refers back to a previous passage we read on Palm Sunday, and reveals the overwhelming compassion and mercy of Jesus toward Peter, and toward all of us. In the reading from Palm Sunday, Jesus told Peter that Peter will be "sifted like wheat," to which Peter responds, somewhat arrogantly, "Lord, I am prepared to go to prison and to die with you!" Jesus comments that Peter would deny knowing him three times before the cock crows that very day.
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My son is a toddler, as Jesus was once a toddler. He is on the cusp of being a little boy, just as Jesus once was at the cusp of being a little boy. Each time I am with my son, I am aware he makes me come into an encounter with the holy, into contact with Jesus and the divine.
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The Easter Holy Week is almost here and it’s often forgotten that one of the central themes of the Gospel story is our betrayal of Jesus.
Many Christians memorialize the last days of Jesus by practicing foot washing, celebrating the Eucharist and spending time singing hymns and praying together...
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LOS ANGELES (RNS) Many of today’s evangelical Christians seem to be taking to heart the words traditionally attributed to St. Francis of Assisi: “Preach the gospel at all times. When necessary, use words.”
Or at least they were at the recent Q Conference here, a gathering of more than a few of the most influential and innovative mover-shakers of the evangelical world.
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A fine answer, Rev! Babies can be a sex-killer for a lot of reasons: pain being chief among them....
Provoking questions! As a single guy I don’t have a clue, but I sense you have a deeper understandin...
I never have a hard time steering away from people and focusing on policies, principles and programs...
Mark: it is very apt analogy, though with a few caveats. As a non-pacifist but still non-militarist...
I think I can identify with this view, in that, while I am a Christian Pacifist American (in that or...
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