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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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