Tag: change
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A Quick Thought on Staying Non-Reactionary, Non-Defensive, and Non-Anxious
Two different articles from two wildly different authors that came across email a day or so ago seemed to speak to one another, which made me think. One came from Pete Enns, on the moment of insight that shaped his “life’s work of trying to understand the Bible rather than defend it,” the moment he…
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“This Morning, 4 a.m.”
Originally posted on Utopian Discourse: What I wrote this morning: First, it’s been extraordinarily difficult making time to do serious work on this project. It would seem this would be easy, since I’m not teaching and theoretically my part-time job requires fewer hours than teaching. In reality, however, as usual, this has proved not exactly correct…
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Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
We are the kind of church where we notice if people are missing from worship. Then there is checking in – “How is …?” “What’s going on … is everything OK?” More than the usual number of people were missing from worship this week. It mostly has to do with summer travel. It was too…
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Cultural Symbolism, or Baking at Christmas
I have done some baking this Christmas, for the first time in at least a decade. I’m not entirely sure why I stopped baking at Christmas; it was probably some combination of busy-ness and overwhelm and the idea that we don’t need all that sugar around anyway and resistance and avoidance and the “complex system…
Matters of Interpretation 