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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,…
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I have written plenty before about how I don’t think God is a vending machine, where if you ask hard enough for the pony you get one. Even if the pony is, say, saving your child from a dread disease. I don’t see God as a master puppeteer, with hands on strings over all of…
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I wrote a long post on revelation in my first go-round. Ain’t nobody got time for that. But how do I know? I can’t say it’s because I see you in Nature, in the World. I mean, I do, but I also see a LOT of messed up stuff that isn’t at all love. There…
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It’s funny. The thing that more than anything has put this on my heart is a recognition that I think we have you all wrong. What makes us such a messed up culture and messed up world is that we think of you the wrong way. I said this on Facebook, and then I said…
