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"Drawing Water Without a Bucket"
I’m honored to do a little guest blogging for Lutheran World Relief. Here’s numero uno, trying to answer the question of why everyone likes to…
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Super Bowl XLVI: America’s Holy Day
Tim Tebow won’t be there. But don’t be surprised if God makes an appearance this Sunday, because we are entering holy days.
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The Supreme Court, a "minister," and the issue of trust
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in perhaps the most significant case involving religious liberty and the separation of church and state in decades. But it…
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The Bible as literature: Marilynne Robinson on "the book of books"
The novelist Marilynne Robinson, who always writes eloquently, writes eloquently of the innumerable connections between the Bible and other works of art. I think she’s…
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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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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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The 4.74 degrees of separation between you and me
So, apparently, the six degrees that used to separate you and me has shrunk. The number of people separating anyone from anyone else in the…