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Showing posts with label 42.Culture.Kingdom.Sociology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 42.Culture.Kingdom.Sociology. Show all posts
2025-03-05

The Inclusive Gospel of School Chaplaincy

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Especially on Christian High Holy Days like Ash Wednesday, I am asked how School Chaplains proclaim the Good News of Jesus in the midst of a...
2025-02-18

Three Strands of Classical Liberalism

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Recently, I have been part of a book study of Patrick J. Deneen’s “ Why Liberalism Failed ”. Three conversations into Deneen and I find myse...
2024-02-04

Provocation on Revisionists, Traditionalists, and Jesus

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Revisionists often proclaim Jesus as a radical prophet of the justice of God who overturns Empire, while denying or ignoring Jesus as the In...
2023-11-07

Rejecting the Reconquista for Christ's Mission of Inclusion

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Earlier this week I found the Reconquista movement , with its Episcopal version , which details a plan to "re-conquer" historic de...
2022-12-21

God's relationship with the world and culture

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This is intended to help us understand how " Scripture speaks " on various topics. I have taken topical outlines I created for pre...
2022-08-31

The Politics of God’s Kingdom

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For a long time I have said: Wherever there are people, there are politics. Politics are the distinctive ways of organizing a community, ens...
2022-07-12

Beware of Prophets for Profits

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“Think again Sunshine!” Pop-intellectual Jordan Peterson has released a video in which he takes the role of a prophet and tells all Christi...
2022-06-30

The strangest thing about Stranger Things

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We did a marathon of the newest half season of Stranger Things over the last couple of nights. As a spiritual guide, I think the strangest t...
2022-01-14

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Scripture

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At the school I serve as chaplain, I was recently asked to provide some Scriptural reflections on our commitment to diversity, equity, and i...
2021-12-30

Resurrecting the Matrix: An Ideological Review

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I just saw Matrix Resurrections. Here are my responses in no particular order:
2021-12-01

Stupidity as a gateway to Fascism

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These excerpts on stupidity as a gateway to fascism are taken from a circular letter, addressing many topics, which was written by Dietrich ...
2021-11-24

Religious Fascination

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I am fascinated by religion, and the process by which humans have created structures and norms and beliefs and practices which allow us to c...
2021-06-03

A Post Pentecost Poem

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We Christians love to affirm: . Semper Reformanda! Always reformed Always reforming! Until that reformation Reforms the way we read the Bibl...
2021-02-01

The Great Weariness of “If Only...”

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What would you do if only you had the power and knowledge of a god?
2021-01-15

Living Vine, Dead Trellis

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A poetic reflection on John 15.5 and institutional religion.
2021-01-08

Speed Wobble

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You know that feeling When you are cruising down a hill On a skateboard Or maybe a scooter or bike And you get going Faster And faster And f...
2020-11-17

Durkheim’s Ghost

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At this time of social distance,  We need shared rituals  Now more than ever Even if they are shared  At a distance  Over an internet connec...
2020-08-27

Hope in a Hollow Culture

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“Meaningless! Meaningless!”  says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless!” (Ecclesiastes 1.2)  It is easy to lose Hope...
2020-02-18

Sacred Ideas within Secular Idioms

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As a school chaplain I am blessed to live and work with people from all faith backgrounds, and those who claim no religious faith at all....
2019-11-10

Dark Fate and the bright future of Terminator

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I come from a generational fandom of the Terminator movies. My dad loved 1984's Terminator, and took me to see it in the movie theate...