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1st Sunday of Advent: Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall…

The first Christmas was a Magnificat kind of Christmas. It wasn’t a Dickens kind of Christmas, and it wasn’t a Midwestern kind of Christmas, and it wasn’t a Tennessee kind of Christmas. It was a Mary kind of Magnificat kind of Christmas that turns our kinds of Christmases on their head. This is our first…

When I spoke at John Brown University, I had dinner with a student whose father was seriously injured in a car accident the next day. Here’s a link. Lord, hear our prayers.

John Kasich of “The Heartland” for national FoxNews has contacted our people to invite us to the Chicago studio tonight for an interview about The Real Mary and The Nativity Story. So, if you have time tonight between 8-9pm Central (they thought this segment would run from 8:30 or so on), give it a look.…

Next Sunday we’ll be at Emmaus Community and then on Monday at the emerging group Up/rooted. For details, see here.

There are four theologians, who happen to be my age (or close), whom I have decided to read whatever they write — if I can find time. LeRon Shults, Kevin Vanhoozer, John Franke, and Miroslav Volf. Volf’s newest book, which I want to examine over the next couple of months, is The End of Memory.…

The Church has developed its own mechanisms of calling people “names,” of “labelling” others. The most powerful “labels” in the Church are “fundamentalist” and “liberal.” Calling someone one of those labels is rarely a simple description — it is an act of repudiation and denunciation. Here are ten observations about labelling. But, first …

“How I long for your precepts! In your righteousness preserve my life” (Ps 119:40). To long for (taev) is how the psalmist caps this section of the psalm. He yearns for God’s precepts.

From the AP wires, and posted at AOL.com, there is clear evidence of purple politics. And blurring lines often creates tension. Rick Warren has a summit on AIDS and has invited both Barack Obama (Democrat) and Sam Brownback (Republican), but Rob Schenck, president of the National Clergy Council, asks his folks to protest the event…

Richard Dawkins, who writes with a prose that is saucy and caustic and witty, argues in his newest book that God is a delusion. I will be joined in this series by RJS; I will write the first few paragraphs today and then RJS joins in. RJS is a scientist at a research university in…
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