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About PaulVK

Husband, Father of 5, Pastor

Seeks out a church on Ash Wed. but not Sunday

RNS Christian tradition plus contemporary blender of self-expressive spirituality equals postmodern seeking Though I think and write about religion, I am not particularly devout. I can accept faith as a way of seeing. But I struggle with faith as a … Continue reading →

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Lent in North America, James KA Smith

“even our self-denial is an act of self-expression. Our submission to discipline is converted to act of will power.” http://forsclavigera.blogspot.ca/2016/02/an-american-lent.html In a more robustly communal practice of the faith, my self-denial is not up to me. The practices of fasting … Continue reading →

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Do Multi-cultural churches reinforce racism?

Daniel Camacho Most multicultural churches—in spite of the best intentions—still center white experiences and require people of color to make bigger sacrifices in adjusting themselves to white norms. In The Elusive Dream: The Power of Race in Interracial Churches, sociologist … Continue reading →

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Does the faith of a presidential candidate matter?

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How to Win at Parish Poker

http://www.christianitytoday.com/le/1986/winter/86l1044.html?paging=off

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A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt

http://www.mindingthecampus.org/2016/02/a-conversation-with-jonathan-haidt/

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Melinda Selmys Talks About How She Got Into This

Patheos Since I don’t have a PhD in English, or even, for that matter, a BA in anything, there’s no way I could convince anyone to be interested in publishing such a work. But lots of nice Catholic folks kept … Continue reading →

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African Woman Attacked in India

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The Body that Enables the Spirit

Yet the last item in this sequence is the one that he is driving toward: “It is sown a natural body [psychikon sōma], it is raised a spiritual body [pneumatikon sōma]” (v. 44, NIV). This is the nub of his … Continue reading →

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1/5 of Lawyers have a serious drinking problem

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