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Advent at Standing Rock
UPDATE: The pipeline has been halted for more environmental studies to be done. While this is wonderful news, we must remain vigilant. Advent comes at that time of year when our planet turns [...]
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Posted World Refugee Day: Imagining a New Way
Photograph by Daniel Etter. There are few who haven’t been moved by the visible anguish of Laith Majid as he and his family finally landed safely on the shores of a Greek island. Clutching his [...]
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Posted March Synchroblog: All About Eve
You’d have to be living under a rock these last few years to not be aware of the escalating frenzy around women’s health and women’s rights that is going on in political and religious spheres. [...]
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Posted [Book Review] Kissing Fish: Christianity for People Who Don’t Like Christianity
Kissing Fish: Christianity for People Who Don’t Like Christianity By Roger Wolsey Xlibris Corporation It’s important to remember while reading Kissing Fish: Christianity for People Who Don’t Like [...]
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Posted [February 2012 Synchroblog] Economic Inequality: Coming Back to Our Senses
Our Synchroblog this month explores the ever-expanding gap between rich and poor in our country and others. Reports show that this gap is has reached its highest level in 30 years. One only needs [...]
[Book Review] Half The Church by Carolyn Custis James
Half the Church: Recapturing God’s Global Vision for Women By Carolyn Custis James Zondervan Publishing 206 pages, including questions for discussion Zondervan gave me a free copy to give away [...]
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Posted Reading The Bible From The Margins [October 2010 Synchroblog]
This post is part of a larger Synchroblog. This month’s topic is “seeing through the eyes of the marginalized.” I will post links to the other blogs as they come in. I once had [...]
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Posted Synchroblog- Immigration: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…
This is part of a larger synchroblog, which is when many bloggers write on the same issue. This month, the topic is immigration. This is a tough, complicated issue. In our extremely fragmented [...]
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God, Haiti, Pat Robertston and us
By now everyone has heard of Pat Robertson’s unfortunate remarks regarding the earthquake in Haiti. He has often claimed to know the purpose that is intended (of course it’s judgment) by the [...]
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Posted who should lead the church?
If you examine the picture closely, you can see that this portrayal of DaVinci’s Last Supper (photographed by Raoef Mamedov) is made up of people with Down’s Syndrome. This picture brought to [...]