Religion is not for the sake of social order

In the divine economy of grace, sin and failure become the base metal and raw material for the redemption experience itself. Much of organized religion, however, tends to be peopled by folks who have a mania for some ideal order, which is never the case, so they are seldom happy...
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A Benediction for Election Day

May you remember that all politics and all platforms and all legalities and all borders and all leaders are temporary. May you recall that political movements and boundaries and personalities and programs are here one day and gone the next. All of these are passing away. May you...
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Our Mediator

The Maker of man was made man, that the Ruler of the stars might suck at the breast, that the Bread might be hungered, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be wearied by the journey, the Truth be accused by false witnesses, the Judge of the living and the dead be judged...
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What is the gospel?

What is the good news that Jesus preached? What is the gospel that we should be preaching today? Noted New Testament scholar, N. T. Wright, offers some concise, thoughtful, and helpful observations on some aspects of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Uncomfortably Numb

The pain of living a life so alienated from what is natural and pleasurable exacts a psychic cost: numbing. Most of us, winners and losers alike, are profoundly unable to grasp the severity of our loss. Numbness in turn produces amnesia about what a fully human life would be...
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