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Why “Church as Our Mother” Is Necessary (and is Biblical)

During the pandemic, physical church attendance is seen as optional at best. And because of the understandable deconstruction and disgust, many are repulsed at the thought of church. And that’s why idea of “church as mother” elicits a strong response from people (for and against) (See my recent post and all the response).  This is […]

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How Not To Discern the Body of Jesus

What Do You See? What we expect to see is often what we end up seeing.  Expectations are everything. And changing them is hard.   The same is true for Communion, or the Lord’s Supper, or the Eucharist (depending on your tradition).   Paul tells not to eat or drink of the Lord’s Supper “without […]

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A Tribe ≠ The Church

The church, however, is not and cannot be “tribal”; rather the church is the community that enables us to recognize that, in fact, it is the world we live in which has a splintered and tribal existence. (Hauerwas, A Community of Character, 92) If only this were true more of the time.