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Red Letter Christian Richard Rohr was featured in today’s NPR segment, This I Believe. Here’s a choice nugget, but you can also read or listen to his entire reflection. [M] any religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of “faith”! How…

I know this is a “God’s Politics” blog, and I know that this won’t sound very political, but in the end, it sort of is, especially ten days before Christmas. Earlier this week, I was speaking to a group of Methodist ministers and we sang the Christmas carol “Joy to the World.” Two moments in…

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