Category: Welcome/Inclusion
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All Means All (Second Week of Advent, 2013)
“We three kings of Orient are.” So begins a favorite carol of the Advent season about the “Wise Men” who visit the newborn Jesus. And so begins a tale that takes inaccuracy and historical revisionism to a whole new level. Reverend John Henry Hopkins, Jr., who wrote the carol a century and a half ago, […]
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The People Business
This is what I have realized of late, about A Simple Faith, and about church in general: No, we don’t need more churches as we have previously known church. We don’t need more straight-laced, behavior-management obsessed, bottom-line focused, boundary-drawing corporations calling themselves the body of Christ. We need these things we call churches to look […]
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Where Nothing Is Sacred
The words “holy” and “sacred” are sometimes used interchangeably. I don’t think this should be the case, as there is a huge difference between the two. Sacred comes from the Latin, “sacrum.” You might recognize that “sacrum” is also the name of the bones in your pelvis. The ancient Romans called this part of the […]