Category: What happens at church
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Thoughts on “Being the Church” on a Bad Day
[Trigger warning: this post talks about sexual violence, Biblical violence, and church.] My denomination is in the national news these days, because Judges 19 was the text for the exegesis ordination exam given at the end of January. The miserable consequences were, it seems to me, foreseeable, and avoidable, and are still unfolding. For a…
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Continuity, or Denial?
Is “what happens at church” on most Sunday mornings more about “continuity” or more about “denial” of what’s going on outside of church?
Matters of Interpretation 