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Fire in the Dark

This semester I’m teaching a course on the topic of Christianity and popular culture. We started the semester reading selections from Niebuhr’s Christ and Culture

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The Insidiousness of Uniformity

Jessicah Bratt’s recent blog post engendered a fair amount of gratitude and conversation from our regular readers. She graciously raised pointed questions about the RCA’s

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No Loitering

These last few days on The 12 it seems as if we’re in the middle of something of an intentional series here, thinking through various

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Labors of Conscience

A few weeks ago, the day after Pope Francis’ election, actually, a chaplain colleague and I greeted a troop of Girl Scouts in the children’s

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Me and Norman Bates

Hey, I’m no purist.  Maybe I should be–after all, I’ve been a classroom teacher for my whole life, an English teacher too.  I’ve every right

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Hawks and Doves

For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind. But be

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