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O God, Creator of heaven and earth: Grant that, as the crucified body of thy dear Son was laid in the tomb and rested on this holy Sabbath, so we may await with him the coming of the third day, and rise with him to newness of life; who now liveth and reigneth with thee…

Who is the best baseball pitcher of all time? What we mean is this: Who, by dominance on the mound, beat his contemporaries and did so clearly that over time that person stands out as the best pitcher of all time? One rule: they can’t be playing now; must be out of the game.

Paradoxically, one of the disciplines most needful for the community of faith is the discipline of silence — and Darryl Tippens’ 10th chp in Pilgrim Heart addresses that topic.

We need to reconsider why it was that Jesus chose Passover (a night of celebrating and remembering liberation) rather than Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement (a day of affliction and a day when sins were atoned for). Why does he choose this night to take his stand for what his death meant? Why die…

The Song of Solomon is a love song between lovers and for lovers. Perhaps it was a play or designed to be dramatically played before others. Perhaps it was designed for the king’s courtiers as entertainment. Perhaps it is a record of poems between two lovers. However we explain its original context, its rhetoric and…

The implication of chp 7 in Andrew Greeley and Michael Hout’s book, The Truth about Conservative Christians, has an edge of irony or even humor — but statistically accurate: if the Mainline Christian couples want to have more influence in the elections, they need to leave their boycotts and city hall protests and get home,…

North Park has a nice gallery in our classroom building in which we are treated to a constant display of art — some from students, some local artists, and sometimes from the professors. Getting yourself displayed like this is as good as a publication in other disciplines. So, when I recently received a copy of…

The young woman wants to know where her young lover will be during the siesta time of midday. His response? Read this:

Yesterday I posted an edited, composite letter from a Christian leader to me whose integrity is being called into question because of his/her participation in the emerging movement. The letter said plenty, and your responses yesterday were very good — today I’ll offer what I have to say to such folks.

At some point or another the Gospel reader who has some interest in women in ministry confronts the reality that Jesus did not call women to be apostles. Were they “disciples”? Yes. More importantly, what kinds of “ministry” did they have? Today I want to suggest that women took common places and converted them into…
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