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Liturgical Dissonance

Christian liturgy should intensify the "cognitive dissonance" between the community of faith and the world surrounding it.


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The Need for Renewal

I look out upon my own African-American community, and I wince when I hear those stirring words from James Weldon Johnson, "Stony, the road we trod, ...


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Remaking God in Our Image

Our society has taken Jesus and recreated him in our own cultural image. When I hear Jesus being proclaimed from the television stations across our country, ...


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More Than an Economic High

Our whole society ... is focused on the celebration of Christmas. With the excessive commercialism which begins in our country immediately after Halloween ...


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No Offense at Christmas

Society never actually wanted the Incarnation. "Emmanuel, God-with-Us" does not sell computer games or cologne. Society wanted the cute stuff--rustic ...


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Cool Addicts

Everybody knows that TV is mostly false and stupid, that almost no one pays that much attention to it--and yet it's on for over seven hours a day ...


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Uninformed Opinions

Belief that fashion alone should dominate opinion has great advantages. It makes thought unnecessary and puts the highest intelligence within the range ...


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Forwarding the Gospel

The gospel must be preached afresh and told in new ways to every generation, since every generation has its own unique questions. The gospel must constantly ...


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No Useful Past

What is worrisome is the absolute domination of the present in so many homes, and the absence of any shared past. It isn't a class phenomenon so much ...


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"Adult" Movies Aren't for Adults

A pretty good case can be made that the "adult movies" for "mature audiences" actually are designed to attract only the most juvenile ...


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