Category: Blog

Dear Rob Bell

Dear Rob: Please don’t think I’m being snarky posting an open letter to you.  But the issues you’ve raised over the last year or so

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Imperfection

This past week I set aside my academic work, picked up a flat bar and needle nose pliers, and set to work ripping up old

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Shine, Perishing Republic

Memorial Day deserves a poem. Not the civil religious strains that once caught me at the altar rail at a small-town Episcopal church, receiving the

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Significant Soil

I don’t think I’m going to be able to plant a garden this year—which bums me out. But too much travel means I’ll not be at

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Uncommon Grace

Averagely scrumptious. Tolerably ravishing. Mediocrely luxurious. Do such phrases make sense you? How about “common grace.” A bit oxymoronic, perhaps? Is grace ever common and

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Matthew 2.0

Thanks to my colleagues, this blog has been hitting its stride in the last two weeks (IMHO), day after day taking on challenging, serious topics

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