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Fractured Flourishing
You vulnerably stand before a crowd of people quickly increasing in number. The gathering, visually homogeneous, is hostile and irritated, anxious and paranoid, fearful of losing control, and against the cacophonous backdrop of demanding shouts, a defeated and broken individual, who is a beautiful living contrast to the flat dullness of the assembly, is violently…
Every Moment Supernatural
For many of us – if not most of us – today will be ordinary. Despite COVID-19’s life-altering impact on society, the rhythm of daily life is, for the love of neighbor, limited to the common, mundane, or trivial. Life, right now, possibly seems like a series of small, insignificant moments, and the ordinary -…
Being a Neighbor
Luke writes (10:25-37), “25And behold, a lawyer stood up to put [Jesus] to the test, saying, ‘Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?’ 26[Jesus] said to him, ‘What is written in the Law? How do you read it?’ 27And [the lawyer] answered, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart…
To err is human?
Does Adam and Eve’s historical or archetypal original sin remove or infect humanity’s inherent goodness? Total depravity – the complete removal view – potentially (I think usually) influences the Christian and non-religious alike to incorrectly conclude Christian tradition unapologetically endorses a dehumanizing perspective: the being – not current condition – of humanity is sinful, imperfect,…
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