Taking up the cross isn't to hammer others with it but to excercise a willingness to be the one hanging from it.

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Requesting to see the wounds isn't doubt, and isn't morbiod fascination. It's Thomas leading us away from his own nationalism into real faith.

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Happy Easter!

Now, let's get going.

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The day is surely coming, but until it's here this will do.

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The church gathers for what may be, and by this we give occasion for it to be. Impossible love! Imperitive love.

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Time offers a different sort of temple in which the church can gather. It requires a lot less maintanance.

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Who requires the suffering of Christ? We've often gotten that important quesiton wrong.

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Maybe it's time to changeg our minds about God, that God isn't about ruin but about repair.

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Sometimes what's shiny objects to our refusal to allow it to be more than that.

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We all want to change the world. The question is what end we'd hope such change will bring about.

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We're not usually this sick, but sometimes we do really need strong mediine.

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Your attention is your most precious resource. Pay it to something worthy.

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The call is coming from inside the house--or not.

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This is a special edition of the podcast, a talk I will give at a concert in honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. near his birthday..

The Magi should frighten us--for how do they know what they know, and how do we know what this new revelation makes known and how do we know we can trust it? When orthodoxy falls by the wayside, how do you find a new--and true--way?

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