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A Progressive Civil Religion?

It was an unusual Easter sermon, to say the least. At least unusual for this well-trained CRC boy. We were worshiping at Christ Church in

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Unsatisfied

Note: If a film in which two socially awkward men make up paddleball games, do jigsaw puzzles, watch kung-fu movies, and face a terminal diagnosis,

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Successful?

The megachurch phenomenon is fraught with challenges and questions.  Increasingly we are also seeing not just one huge congregation that worships in a single cavernous

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Waltzing with the Trinity

Yesterday was Pentecost, meaning that this coming Sunday is known as Trinity Sunday. I used to make fun of Trinity Sunday. Exactly what event are

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Pentecost is the Gospel

For most of my life I was a Baptist; specifically a Missionary Baptist in the African American tradition of what that means. In that tradition,

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All about D-day

I didn’t know him–couldn’t have. He was killed four years before I was born. For years I wouldn’t have known his story any more fully

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