Tag: Christian life today

• A History Book Like I Never Read in School

  

  Our church book group settled on the book Stamped earlier this summer, as a follow-up to our study of Difficult Conversations. We figured reading about race together in our white rural congregation would probably spark a few difficult conversations all by itself, and we wouldn’t even have to do any role playing. Our pastor had […]

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  August 27, 2020

  Read Me Project

  books, Christian life today, history of ideas, race in the US, Stamped, Stamped from the Beginning

• Conviction

  

  I am behind everywhere in my life. At a time when it feels wrong to say nothing at all, because what is happening is happening now, and how things “will turn out” is actually partly up to each one of us. I normally feel I can’t do much to affect “big things.” My world is […]

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  June 4, 2020

  What happens at church

  anti-racism, Christian life today, racism, repentance, the Church

• Contemporary Revelation?

  

  Here’s some interpretation: Robinson Meyer’s commentary on the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2019 report. Some Christians seem to think that the only revelation, or genuine prophecy, is in the Bible. Most Christians, I’m guessing, think of “the prophets” according to Sunday school illustrations. They are wearing “Bible times” clothes, and talking in ancient […]

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  August 9, 2019

  Reading Out Loud, Thinking Out Loud

  Christian life today, climate change, politics, prophecy, revelation