Articles
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Five inner demons, four better angels . . .
. . . and a more peaceful 2012? That’s not yet another take on the 12 Days of Christmas, it’s what Steven Pinker, Harvard Psychologist,…
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Finding Christmas in an incomplete sentence
The current liturgical church year is a year to read the Gospel of Mark. But what are we to do at Christmastime with the only…
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A “Church” that Never Saw “Christmas”
Ancient ruins and our not-so-ancient “Christmas”
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In memoriam: Vaclav Havel
A second prolific writer and public intellectual has died in the space of a few days. But their lives couldn’t have been more different.
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Losing Face[book]
Why I abandoned the third largest “country” in the world.
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The Calling – A Growing Interest in Vocation
I’ve been watching a documentary on PBS called The Calling. It follows “seven young religious students — Muslim, Catholic, Evangelical Christian, and Jewish — who…
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Performance of the Lectionary in Worship
Being Engaged by the Word
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New Book on the History and Theology of the Formula of Concord
And soon, another on the Creeds and the other Lutheran Confessions
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Peter Rollins’ “Insurrection”
The latest book from a prominent figure in the “Emergent Church Movement”