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There are a couple of funny moments in Acts 3-5, but more than that, there are just some great examples of interesting storytelling. If you’re like most people, you probably got turned off to the Bible a long time ago. You read a translation that made everything sound stuffy and foreign and inaccessible, and you…
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“My brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of any kind, consider it nothing but joy.” I don’t know about that. Joy in tribulation isn’t a major theme of James, appearing only in the beginning and end of the letter. Nor is it unique to James – Paul says very similar things in his letters.…
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“Hamilton” is in some ways a victim of its own success. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical is so ubiquitous that it’s hard to remember that in, say, 2015, very few people knew much of anything about the historical Alexander Hamilton. So when characters in Miranda’s musical muse about the fickle nature of fate and the unpredictability of…
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Disney is leaving money on the table by not cultivating followers as well as fans.
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I have been mulling something my daughter said recently. She told me that it was hard to describe her parents to her friends, because on the one hand, we are very religious, but on the other hand, we liked the profane and sacrilegious musical “The Book of Mormon.” I guess she has a point. I…
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What does a world look like, if it’s organized around love and not power? Many would argue that it’s not worth trying to envision that. Whether it’s expressed as the will to power or original sin, the tendency of humans to push their individual, selfish wills onto others runs deep, so deep that it’s assumed…
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This is a hard time to be a Christian, and a harder time to be a Catholic. Within the Christian tradition, institutional churches are all, to various degree, dealing with a schism between conservatives and progressives. The Catholic Church most dramatically, but many others more quietly, are being tormented by sexual abuse crises that have…
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*I am using the masculine term intentionally. Hang with me and you’ll see. So, God who is Love, what of us? Who are we, and why does it so often seem as though we are so far from love, so far from you? I believe you have made us with some essential needs that you…
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As we misjudge You, Love, projecting a regal warrior upon your name, so we misjudge our lives. We have this framework of salvation: we were made good but chose bad, because You are just, we must pay with our lives, You offer yourself, your son, as sacrifice for that sin, and if we accept that,…
Reading Francis 