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Rick and Carol: Moral Ambiguity in the Walking Dead
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You, Your Self, Your Soul, Is a Story
Sacramento solid waste is using their claw to pick up leaves. While I’m waiting for the operator to finish emptying it into the garbage truck another car swoops around me and runs through. I’m upset. I feel like some part … Continue reading
Mercy for the mayor? I’m struck by how deeply we trust condemnation as the most effective means for seeking and motivating change. The desire for justice, honesty, transparency and good government are right. Yet when those are threatened we resort … Continue reading
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Christianity, evolution, and Bambi Theology What does the vast amount of animal suffering and death say about a God who uses evolution to create.
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To Be Able To Make Us Able To Receive Absolutely Everything
Addiction to Circumstance We are, by nature, addicted to circumstance. As infants we cried when we were hungry, cold or wet and hoped someone would heed our plea. As we grew, this pattern scaled up, grew more complex, deepened. When … Continue reading
Listen First: Chimes (Student Newspaper) Feature on Stories of LGBT Students at Calvin
Chimes Letters to the editor following the piece
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NY Times Obit for Eugene Callender
NYT One of the first Black pastors in the CRCNA.
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Addressing our Angst
I wrote a piece on the CRC Network on the CRC and Angst. It came out of a far longer discussion on CRC-Voices. We get ourselves into a tizzy or we fall into despair. I wrote this to afford a bit … Continue reading
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Should The (small d) denomination Be Anxious?
Answering a comment on The Network I’ve got enough contact with “the current leadership” (or a piece of it anyway) to know that there is plenty of angst about. The listening tour going on is of course part of that. … Continue reading →