It's Sunday evening and I'm sitting in my favorite coffee shop hard at work on my next book. A group of twenty or so people have just arrived and started a meeting right next to me. It sounds like they are the local atheist society and they have gathered to discuss all of the reasons that they hate religion, mostly Christianity.<\/p>\n
And here I sit writing about what Christianity would look like if we had a jazz-shaped view of the cross–that is, the cross as a way of life. I wonder if that would make any difference to my new neighbors…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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