Tag: daily life
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Third Sunday of Easter
The day-to-day reality of participating in church could give you emotional and cognitive whiplash, if you let it. Like this morning: we spent an hour or so talking about the kind of deep theological topics that people debate in seminary and in theology texts – justification by faith, redemption, atonement, grace, which faith is it,…
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Out of Sight
Why would anyone start going to church? That is far from obvious. Not that there are no reasons for going to church, or no good reasons, or even no genuinely compelling reasons. I love church. I always have – if “always” can mean “ever since I was a little girl, not counting the twenty-odd years…
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Religion Question
Everyone knows that religion has no satisfactory definition. Nevertheless, most people know what they recognize as religion, know what they mean by “a religious person,” etc. What people typically recognize includes “official” religiosity – ritual practice, sacred texts, ordained positions, etc. If that were all there was to religion, though, religion would look a lot…
Matters of Interpretation 