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Better Bad than Stiff

It's worth noting that Jesus didn't condemn bad people. He condemned "stiff" people. We condemn the bad ones and affirm the stiff ones. ...


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Inflated Self-Image

Sometimes we are moved by compassion and think it zeal. We blame small things in others, and pass over greater things in ourselves. Quickly enough we ...


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Leaving Behind Your Child

One Sunday, our minister told the story of how Mary and Joseph left Jesus behind at the temple. My husband, Bob, wondered, "How could a parent forget ...


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Through Ticket to Heaven?

I sometimes wonder whether the church needs new members one-half as much as she needs the old bunch made over. Judging by the way multitudes in the church ...


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Declared "Redundant"

A while ago it was announced that a church in [the Anglican bishop of London's] diocese, St. Mark's in Mayfair, was being declared "redundant," ...


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Quelling a Rebellion

Annie Dillard, who won a Pulitzer Prize in literature at age 30, has written explicitly about her Christian faith. As a teen, however, she once decided ...


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Looking for By-Products

Sometimes people come to us and want to receive only the by-products of the Christian church. They have no intention of assimilating.


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Danger of the Unexamined Self

Refusing to deal with our own potential for evil can make even our goodness dangerous.


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Ignoring God

According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe in God. Yet it is clear that the unbelief which ...


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Are Liberals Really Tolerant?

A woman writing the television station where my commentaries are broadcast began her letter, "Gentlemen and Other Scum." She then proceeded ...


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