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“Hell Is Hotter”
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Kristina Robb-Dover
“1.4 million lack power amidst relentless heat,” or so go the headlines these days. Here in Atlanta over the past weekend, the heat index was upwards of 110 degrees. It was so hot that simply stepping out to get the mail felt like walking through a sauna, and the local pool offered free, unlimited, weekend…
Evil in “High Places”- Why This Week’s Convictions Belong to a Long Struggle for Justice
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Kristina Robb-Dover
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. – Ephesians 6:12 (King James Version) This week the man at the center of the Penn State scandal, former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, was convicted on…
From Boobs to Brains: A Four-Part Interview with a Stanford Neuroscientist
By
Kristina Robb-Dover
If all this boobie talk is becoming tiresome- incidentally just the other day NPR’s Terry Gross was interviewing someone who has written a whole book on breasts- we’re on to a subject I find frankly far more scintillating. It’s one that we’ve been waiting for, and it won’t disappoint. Today is the first in a…
The Lesson of the Refrigerator Repairman
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Kristina Robb-Dover
He showed up at our door yesterday afternoon to fix the refrigerator. (What do you get when a professor and a minister have a broken refrigerator? Answer: An appliance repairman.) The first words out of his mouth signaled he was Russian. Maybe I should have guessed what was coming when I asked in my now…
The White Chip
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Kristina Robb-Dover
“The White Chip” He said she’d not make a good poker player. She only played once, now one’s for the taking. The white chips— for the lowest wager— and she’s still gambling on a turnaround. No more conceit. No more lies. “Double or nothing?” Sure… when your life is at stake. She’s in the…
Temptation
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Kristina Robb-Dover
Temptation. I have to imagine Jesus knew what a fact of life it is, because he taught us to pray daily for ourselves in this respect: “Give us this day our daily bread, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” Some versions of this prayer read, “Save us from the time…
Indecent Exposure: “Jesus the Light,” Epithets Continued
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Kristina Robb-Dover
“And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed. But those who do what is true…
The One, Unforgivable Thing: Weird Sayings Continued
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Kristina Robb-Dover
“If anyone speaks a word against the son of man, it will be forgiven. But if anyone speaks a word against the Holy Spirit, it won’t be forgiven, either in the present age or in the age to come” (Matthew 12:32). Every once in a while when my son expresses his dissatisfaction with the Dover…
“The Little Ones”: Weird Jesus Sayings Continued
By
Kristina Robb-Dover
“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to trip up…it would be better for them to have a huge millstone hung around their neck and be drowned out in the deep sea.” Matthew 18:6 Jesus could just as well be speaking here about former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky…
The Playground Police
By
Kristina Robb-Dover
Did you know that there are now apparently playground police officers? I got stopped by one yesterday. She was in full uniform. The real deal: a City of Atlanta officer with badge, belt and holster to show for it. And she summoned me like a real officer would. Stern, formal, with a tone of…
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