Coming Untrue

When I’m working, I leave my car in a seven-storey public parkade across the street from a hospital. Recently it was thought prudent to i...

Christendom is full of people getting to the right place the wrong way. “Well, that’s a good thing,” we might say. “The important thi...

Life is affliction. Too dark an opener? Maybe. But it’s true. It’s too short for one thing, gone before we fully appreciate it. ...

There’s a useful little spiritual truth called the Corban Principle. That’s just my name for it; I’m sure I owe somebody older and godlie...

“A wintry landscape of unrelieved bleakness.” That’s Lutheran scholar Martin Marty’s take on Psalm 88. One of the difficulties enco...

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“All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name.” The Psalms declare that God ...

Kathy Kelly argues that there is “ no such thing as a just war ”. Jim Foxvog argues that trust in God demands national pacifism . One com...

Novelty can be overrated. Oh, people like to hear new things. An original twist on even the most well-worn religious theme is bound t...

Words are usually coined when we need to make useful distinctions not obvious in the current vernacular. If we have at our disposal a nic...

My head is a tangle of ideas this morning, so let me set about trying to untangle them for you. Thread One: Dr. Emidio Campi is conv...

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Someone asks “Where did Cain get his wife?” A question like that, we all have a pretty good idea where it comes from and where it’s g...

Ignore the title. I promise there will be no sentimental poetry today. You can all breathe easier. Circumstances are very much open ...

We made him up. Or so goes the story. By “him” I mean Jesus Christ. By “we” I mean human beings with an agenda. On the surface it...

Divorce in Western societies is epidemic; that much we know. Statistics vary and are interpreted variously, but we can probably agree...

Drew Brown has a post up at assemblyHUB on the subject of outreach to people who call themselves LGBTQ or some variation thereof. (In th...

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