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What Light in this Present Darkness?
Are you finally angry enough to invest energy in fighting the true enemy? I sat beside a lovely professional woman this week. I like this girl. She’s snarky, intelligent, and strong. We don’t know one another well but we get along. So, I was shocked to hear her make this pronouncement as she scrolled through …[ read more ]
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Don’t Read This Blog Today
The boy stood in front of me with his mouth wide open then he exploded at his mother, “See, mom! See! I told you that wasn’t normal!” Then, he turned to me and continued his rant, “How am I supposed to get anything right when no one in my family knows what’s normal?! Maybe I …[ read more ]
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Voluntary Chain Gangs
Ever serve time on a chain gang? I’ll bet you have. I’ll even bet you’ve volunteered to join one. If you’ve never seen one, it was a practice, now mostly abolished, whereby prisoners were chained together in order to do menial labor such as building roads or digging ditches. They were linked to one another …[ read more ]
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How Then Shall We Fight?
Weapons. It’s a loaded word. When used in the context of faith and spirituality, it conjures up images of jihad and crusades. But that is not what following Jesus is about. We aren’t called to grab or to gain earthly power. We honestly don’t know how to handle it. Like Gollum, some of us are …[ read more ]