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About PaulVK

Husband, Father of 5, Pastor

We Don’t Age Out of Sexuality

Michelle Van Loon

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Post-Evangelical Seekers

Pete Enns Some would say we lost our faith, but the reality is we still desperately seek God and long for the ability to believe in his existence without having to bury our heads in the sand. God seems largely … Continue reading →

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If you use Jesus as a fish finder you may discover you want him more than fish

The Story-verse and the Matter-verse Three weeks ago we explored finding Jesus in the story-verse and the implications of his turning water to wine. As we see in this video of Jim Carrey  at the Golden Globes the uneasy reality between our … Continue reading →

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Bertrand Russell’s matter-verse–story-verse

‘I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.’4 Again, he affirmed his conviction that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; … Continue reading →

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Tudor Farms and Charles Taylor

Dreher The Headscarf and the Immanent Frame The New Yorker: The Headscarf It is also true — and this you can see in TMF too — that the advance of technology and the growth of markets was bound to upset … Continue reading →

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Descartes in Amsterdam

It may not be coincidental that René Descartes, the so-called father of modern philosophy and founder, in terms of philosophical underpinnings, of the modern self— whose Cogito ergo sum (“ I think therefore I am”) formulation reoriented all knowledge on … Continue reading →

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YALT on CRC/RCA SSM

http://weareyalt.org/city-church-flirtation-homosexuality/#.VrTY5zbSnyp

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Skye Jethani Blessed Are Those Who Suffer

Skye Jethani

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What this scathing exchange between top scientists reveals about what nutritionists actually know – The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/04/what-this-scathing-exchange-between-top-scientists-reveals-about-what-nutritionists-actually-know/

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The Progressive roots of the Pro-life movement

The Atlantic

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