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The Commoditization of Social Relationships

[blockquote type=”center”]“The Solomonic establishment embodies the loss of passion, which is the inability to care or suffer.” (The Prophetic Imagination 41) [/blockquote] “The first transcontinental railroad was built with blood, sweat, politics and thievery, out of the meeting of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads. The Central Pacific started on the West Coast going…

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Domesticating God

I thrive on learning.  Memorizing knowledge, thinking and over-thinking is how my brain runs.  So of course, I excelled as an evangelical.  I won gold stars and awards at VBS for memorizing verses.  At the Baptist summer camp I went to, every 40 verses memorized meant you could throw a pie at a counselor’s face. …

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Incarnation – It Means Something!

  Conservative Christianity has not taught me to be a healthy person, and it has not taught me how to raise healthy children. The view I was raised with, the advice I keep seeing handed out, the wisdom I listened to for 90 minutes this morning, basically assumes everything needed for life – even for…

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The Beauty In the Betrayal

“in beauty there echoes a spark of our source” – Sleeping At Last, “Bad Blood” Samuel prepared a table for David, afraid. A table of anointing in the presence of jealousy and danger becomes well-worn poetry. “Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.” The bread has been baked, the grapes…

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Choosing Ritual and Religion to Find Relationship

  Why an Episcopal Church, some people have asked me, and the simple answer is ‘because of Madeleine L’Engle’.  But the actual answer involves Lauren Winner, Phyllis Tickle, Sara Miles, and Barbara Brown Taylor, a messy year, random Twitter conversations, and a blog post by a Pentecostal preacher.  How can I describe what reading books and seeing a…

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Apparantly I’m Entitled, and I Don’t Care

  I’m becoming a little tired of the responses to that RHE article that just dismiss her points as being caused by being a spoiled, entitled millennial. Because you know what?  We aren’t. Leaving, partially leaving, or considering leaving this culture that we grew up in is painful.  It feels like a slow amputation, and…

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True Womanhood – An Offensive Gospel

  In response to Titus 2:3-5 (all quotes taken from this session, mostly from 27:00-33:30, and apologies for the length): “Those words are really, really counter-cultural.  They are radical!  They are not politically correct.  But can I just remind us that that is God’s way?  And that God says these things are good…these are not…

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True Womanhood – June Cleaver as Jesus

“The fundamental premise of feminism is that women need and can trust no other authority than our own personal truth.” Creating a culture of idolatry was probably not anyone’s goal, but I think in the desire to make their point, the True Woman movement has done so.  They tell us the idol of June Cleaver…

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