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Why Are Theological Words Female Names?

Interesting that Faith, Hope, Grace, and Charity are women’s names, not men’s names (at least in English speaking West). Does this point to the feminization of the church in the West? Perhaps. But I doubt it. (picture credit: Faith, Hope and Charity, by James Christensen) Maybe the Work of God is Always A Critique of […]

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Don’t Trust a Church that Doesn’t Limp

We should expect churches to limp along. This limping—rather than being an excuse for moral failure—is the best protection against spiritual abuse and spiritual disfunction. Denying our Limp Leads to Abuse Abuse and disfunction come from hiding or denying our weaknesses. Abuse and disfunction come from preying on the weakness of others. Abuse and disfunction […]

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Into the bare infinity of your uncrowded presence

Gifts often obscure the giver, when we are more interested in what we are receiving.  This is never more clear than in our lives of faith, when we celebrate the grace and gifts of God, but often we never move back toward the giver. Can we learn again to say, with Tagore, …raise me from […]

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Christ in Circulation: The Eucharist and Money

Last week I was in LA at the Wesleyan Philsophical Society.  I presented a paper on “Christ in Circulation: The Eucharist and Money.”  The abstract is below and then after the break is the paper.  If you are interested then you should definitely also check out Jason A. Coker’s post on a similar topic: The […]

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Christ as your broken body

One can never look directly at one’s own body. All we see are fragmented parts, disconnected limbs, but never the whole…This is the same for Christ’s broken body, we only see it through others.