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What Not to Wear

I’ve received a surprising number of links and blogs about how ministers should dress. But the ones I’ve seen have been about street-clothes/civvies. As I

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Of Gods and Men

Today, a movie recommendation. “Of Gods and Men.” It is hauntingly beautiful.  Here’s the trailer: Based on true events, the film depicts a small group of

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Further Up and Further In

I was talking to a writer friend the other day who told me she had just finished a manuscript about a lovely older gentleman who,

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John Calvin’s birthday

My father never called himself a Calvinist, and neither did my mother, which is not to say that they weren’t.  If you would have asked

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Crack House Church

A couple evenings ago Jay Bakker, Peter Rollins, two friends from Michigan (one of whom happens to be Jay’s co-writer and Peter’s editor), my spouse

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Happy?

Two related articles in this past Sunday’s New York Times caught my eye and have been rattling around in my head since I read them.   

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Uncle Cliff

One of the first times I met Cliff Anderson he was sitting in a chair in the corner of my college dorm room eating a

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A Humble Petition

A Humble Petition To the One Who Sits Above the Cherubim and Seraphim, Commander of all Angels and Archangels, Refuge of the Martyrs, Hope of

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