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June 2013

June 21, 2013
Growing up evangelical, I had drilled into me the dichotomy between "the law" and "grace."...
June 20, 2013
I've been working my way through Greg Boyd's God At War. One of the things...
June 18, 2013
I just looked over an essay by Katie Mulligan that deals with the topic of...
June 17, 2013
Today's Monday Merton comes from chapter 10, "Sincerity," of No Man Is An Island. What Merton...
June 16, 2013
A week ago, ex-evangelical blogger Sarah Moon wrote a post titled: "When my abuser is...
June 15, 2013
In David Brooks' New York Times Thursday column, he shares the story of Walter Judd,...
June 14, 2013
I've started reading Greg Boyd's God At War, which I checked out of the local...
June 13, 2013
CNN today features an article talking about the corruption in America's charity industrial complex. One...
June 13, 2013
In the spring of 2010, I bought a Spanish language theology book, El Principio Misericordia...
June 12, 2013
[This is the first synchroblog of our new blogging collective The Despised Ones addressing the...
June 11, 2013
The Daily Office reading for yesterday was the opening of Paul's second letter to the...
June 11, 2013
There has been so much extra-Biblical speculation about the implications of the Garden of Eden...
June 10, 2013
For this week's Monday Merton, I am drawing from chapters 8 and 9 of No...
June 10, 2013
Those who have read this blog for a while will recall that about a year...
June 10, 2013
Our hymn of preparation at mass today was "The Church of Christ in Every Age."...
June 09, 2013
[***UPDATE: I have not been able to find the original source for this quote. I...
June 09, 2013
Yesterday I got the audio from my bilingual sermon in the Dominican Republic. I had...
June 08, 2013
My friend Jason Micheli blogged yesterday on the anxiety of parents whose kids have fallen...
June 08, 2013
For the past several months, I've been watching the conversation unfold as the evangelical feminist...
June 07, 2013
Tomorrow night I will be starting a new sermon series at LifeSign called the Journey...
June 07, 2013
It's quite the ideological whiplash to transition from the outrage over the Boston marathon bombing...
June 06, 2013
An Atlantic Monthly article yesterday took a look at some comments made by one of...
June 05, 2013
Yesterday, over 150 social justice activists in North Carolina were arrested at the state legislature...
June 04, 2013
A few weeks ago, Bruxy Cavey at the Meeting House preached a sermon using Pinocchio...
June 04, 2013
In Brian Zahnd's May 26th sermon "New Creation (Not Evacuation)," he confronts the neo-Gnosticism of...
June 03, 2013
These Monday Merton quotes are taken from chapter 7, "Being and Doing," of No Man...
June 02, 2013
[Today's entry comes from Erin Lauer whose daughter Anna celebrated her eighth birthday yesterday with...
June 01, 2013
[Today's blog reflection comes from our mission team co-leader Jane Wilson] Yesterday, the youngest member...

May 2013

May 31, 2013
[Today's post comes from Emily Amburn] A mission trip consists of different components, each important...
May 30, 2013
I was listening to Brian Zahnd's podcast Tuesday while waiting for the rest of my...
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