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Another Transfiguration

November 5, 2020

As on that mountain, as in this year, all our plans are overthrown, and following Jesus doesn’t look the way it did before.

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Tagged With: Bible, Race, COVID-19, Pandemic, Transfiguration, BlackLivesMatter
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Purity & Love

February 14, 2014

“If only you saw what I can see, you’d understand why I need your modesty.”

So… virtue = being careful to stay out of the way of the sinfulness of young men. “That’s what makes you beautiful.” Got it.

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Tagged With: Virtue, Gender, Holidays, Marriage, Parenting, Psychology, Sex, Valentine's Day
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Seven Books of Fools & Sacred Folly

April 1, 2011

What makes a fool’s day happy? And what — if anything — makes us wise?

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Tagged With: April Fool, Bible, Civility, film, History, Holidays, Liturgy, Shakespeare
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The Kingdom of This World…

November 26, 2010

A little light for Black Friday.

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Reading the Foundations of Religious Freedom

December 28, 2007

Kenneth Jackson, writing in the New York Times, commemorates the 350th anniversary of the Flushing Remonstrance, written in 1657 by Edward Hart and his fellow Flushing, New York, citizens to protest the public torture of a Quaker preacher and the fining and imprisonment of non-Quakers who allowed them to meet in their homes. Jackson notes […]

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