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I feel bad for Michael Jordan. Jordan, of course, is one of the greatest basketball players in the history of the sport and one of the clutch performers of all time in any sport. You probably have heard the story that he did not make the varsity team during his sophomore year of high school;…
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So when I said Ted Lasso was my new religion, I was joking. I mean, mostly. I’m approaching the impending third and likely final season of the Apple TV series with a mix of trepidation and excitement. Trepidation, because the series release date has been pushed back repeatedly, which seldom bodes well for the product.…
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Here’s a little thing about the best chapter in the Bible: When I share these Bible things, they come from me reading through a book of the Bible and seeing what jumps out as something new or different or surprising. I’ve been through the four Gospels now, and for the most part, I come up…
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Faith, like life itself, is not a spectator sport. It is meant to be lived and played, not just watched from the sideline. But how do we find our role, our position, in a Church that only values one role? For the last few decades, Catholics appalled by the Church’s response to the sexual abuse…
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One of my favorite work quotes came from a leader who was adjudicating between warring factions in the office and said to the alleged victim, “You think those other guys wake up every morning thinking about how to make your lives miserable. The fact is, they don’t think about you at all!” I mention this…
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How relatable is John’s Jesus? “Fully human and fully divine” is one of those Christian doctrines that is really hard to wrap your head around, and for me it usually devolves into a “What did Jesus know, and when did he know it?” musing that doesn’t have much of a resolution. On the one hand,…
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I am a rotten gardener, but I am an even worse handyman. And yet, for the last few months, the same prayer continues to come to mind: Strip me down to the studs, Lord. I guess I’ve watched too many of those HGTV shows about home renovations. In John 15, Jesus talks about being the…
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I’m bad with names. It’s funny, because I was once in a group exercise where we had to remember the name of everyone who came before us. I was second to last, but still got everyone’s name right and even remembered something about most of the people. But have I messed up the name of…
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Does God like football? The on-field collapse of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin has sparked a couple of good think pieces from Christian writers about theology and football, and my first and likely best instinct was to let them handle the thinking. Alas, here I am. Since I left a doctoral program in religion focused…
