Author Archives: PaulVK

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Husband, Father of 5, Pastor

Chris Rice, Life Means So Much

Posted on April 5, 2014 by PaulVK
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Portraits of Reconciliation

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NYT Magazine

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The Problem of Lonely Pastors

Posted on April 5, 2014 by PaulVK

  A link was posted on the CRC Pastors Facebook group. It’s a closed group so we don’t share outside of it but since I write what I’m about to share and it doesn’t involve the stuff of others, only … Continue reading →

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Becoming Solid Selves in a Reactive Age

Posted on April 4, 2014 by PaulVK

The Reactive Age The hot topic this week is Brendon Eich stepping down under pressure for his 2008 donations to the Pro-Prop 8 side. He had a chance to recant but did not.  While this event touches on lots of thing … Continue reading →

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Will Willimon’s Making Christians in a Secular World

Posted on April 4, 2014 by PaulVK

One of my favorite links written in 1986 about an event in 1963 but as fresh today as it was then.

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Sickness Unto Death

Posted on April 3, 2014 by PaulVK

Why Didn’t Jesus Just Start Raising Lots of People? We saw with the Iranian Cleric raising the dead thought experiment that a person possessing this kind of power walking around among us would almost certainly provoke us to kill this person … Continue reading →

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Rachel Held Evans pulls the plug on her Evangelical Ex

Posted on April 3, 2014 by PaulVK

Over World Vision “It seems to me,” he responded,  “that for you, evangelicalism is like the ex you broke up with a while ago but still stalk a little bit on Facebook.” (I’m telling you, the dude is like a prophet.) … Continue reading →

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Brendan Eich of Mozilla Steps Down

Posted on April 3, 2014 by PaulVK

CEO of Mozilla steps down under pressure because he gave $1000 to support Prop 8 in California in 2008. Dreher Daily News SF Gate Interview with Venture Beat before the resignation ARS Technica First things World Vision, Mozilla and the Death … Continue reading →

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Augustine on the kind of death we don’t pay as much attention to

Posted on April 3, 2014 by PaulVK

The third example of death is Lazarus. A grievous kind of death it is, and is distinguished as a habit of wickedness. For it is one thing to fall into sin, another to form the habit of sinning. He who … Continue reading →

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Why Divine Personhood Offends us to the point of Deicide

Posted on April 3, 2014 by PaulVK

Raising the Dead Thought Experiment The above link is the raising the dead thought experiment where I discuss what might happen if an Iranian cleric was able to raise the dead and why the peoples of the world might have … Continue reading →

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