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About PaulVK

Husband, Father of 5, Pastor

Ben Witherington on the Resurrection

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Was It A Morning Like This

Video is dated of course but the song is amazing. 🙂 Happy Easter

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I Don’t Mock Zeus Because He’s Fake

I Don’t Mock Zeus Because He’s Fake. This is a good point, but I think slightly off. I think the political factor weighs heavily in this dynamic more than simply the religious points. Richard Dawkins when he was on the … Continue reading →

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10 Things Pastors hate to Admit

http://pastormatt.tv/2014/04/09/10-things-pastors-hate-to-admit-publicly/ and the follow up http://pastormatt.tv/2014/04/17/the-10-things-i-try-to-do-to-be-sanctified-by-the-10-things-i-hate-to-admit/  

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Environmental Millennialists

ny Times

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How the Church Can Finally Finish the Job of Destroying its Reputation begun by a thousand Internet Complaints, and the Poor that ignore them

The Church’s Bad Reputation I regularly read on the Internet about the Church’s bad reputation: Christians in the past have been responsible for bad things (and they’ll probably do it again). People have had bad experiences in churches (and will … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Reasons David Dark is Happy an RC is Taking Over Late Night

On Faith

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Thoughts on Confession and this Good Friday

Voices is good for confession. It’s obscure enough that you can (probably) confess nearly anything and word wouldn’t get out. Happy are we. Our big confessions are of course not the organist we’re sleeping with or the money we’re embezzling, … Continue reading →

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Best description of American Evangelicalism I’ve every read

“Evangelicalism is, if nothing else, a relentless marketing program, driven to update and recombine its constituent elements into new patterns calibrated to catch changing tastes.” From James Bratt’s piece on God’s Forever Family

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Jesus Freeks in the Streets by James Bratt

The twelve God’s Forever Family looks at the astounding marriage of this movement with old-fashioned “born-again” religion. Nothing, Eskridge rightly observes, would seem less likely than this coupling, yet few things have more changed the face of American religion—and with … Continue reading →

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