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Atonement Easter Recent Posts

Is God Cruel For Sending the Son to Die?

What would make God cruel, for you? Is God CRUEL for sending the Son for our salvation? If the Father knew Jesus was going to die, was it cruel to send him? Here are some thoughts in the shadow of Good Friday and Easter. Just yesterday someone called me out on Twitter (shocking, I know) […]

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Love Neuroscience Recent Posts

Why Enemy Love in the Borderland?

“You can’t hold on to love and live by the law of the jungle…” John Mark McMillan Why love? Why hold on to love? And why should I love my enemy? Worldly-Love might perpetuate the species. But Enemy-Love might save our humanity. Because maybe Enemy-Love is what makes us human, the most human.  And if human, then maybe […]

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ecclecia ecclesiology Eucharist politics Recent Posts

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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Culture God

Does God Have to Love Me?

Something surprising happens in a wedding ceremony. The bride and groom, after great preparation and full of love for each other, step forward to be united in marriage. And at the climax of that ceremony, they put conditions on their love for each other.  These conditions are exchanged as vows. These vows take the unconditional […]

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20 For 20

Love without thinking?

Think before you act. Don’t just act. Don’t just react. Slow down, think it through, reflect and plan. We are all told this.  It’s what I tell me kids. But is this right? Thought wastes time. It’s dangerous. Thought takes time.  And it takes energy.  The more you think the more blood your brain needs, […]