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Curious

A colleague whom I respect very, very highly has a theory with which I disagree.  My friend thinks that it is fully possible to teach

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A Married Messiah?

Why is it important that Jesus wasn’t married? Allow a personal disclosure first.  I don’t think Jesus was married.  But in the past month or

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Communal Journalism

Spent an enjoyable mid-afternoon today talking with the board of Perspectives, the journal that’s the mother of The 12 blog. I served on the Perspectives

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Assessing the Hill

I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest courage.  When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the

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Stop Shooting

Jeff Japinga is substituting today for Lynn Japinga, who is substituting for Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell while he is on sabbatical. Jeff serves as associate dean for doctor-of-ministry

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More than a cosmetic fix

Several months ago I recommended the book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. A documentary based

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Get Off My Lawn, Thou Knave

By an odd coincidence, the late William Hazlitt has been haunting my steps this week. The old gent showed up by previous arrangement in my

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