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More Blood at the Altar of the Gun
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We are all Hagar
Texts for this Sermon: Genesis 16:1-16; Genesis 21:1-21. On occasion I get...
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Everything Belongs and the End of Religion
Recently I’ve been thinking that in Evangelical culture in the Pacific Northwest...
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Weak theology and the anti-gospel of American exceptionalism
(Originally published in The Immanent Frame, April 3, 2017). http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2017/04/03/weak-theology-and-the-anti-gospel-of-american-exceptionalism/. A few years ago,...
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