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What does God look like?
As a child, I wondered what God was like. I was told God was like Jesus. But I couldn’t see Jesus; neither could the artists who painted God and Jesus. They just made up what they looked like. I never...
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Two Religions everywhere
Any and all religions are divided between two types. One shouts; the other listens. One makes war in the name of God; the other makes peace in the name of God. One kills its enemies; the other prays...
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Verse – God’s Plan
Steve sent this @12:26 a.m. today. Though fatigued, he had a “good day” with visits from his high school friend Gary, an 18 year-old he’s mentored since the fourth grade (clarification: since the young...
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Be Still! Departing from Collective Madness
Writing Be Still! Departure from Collective Madness (scheduled for release by Wipf and Stock Publishers in January), I had a growing sense of its prescience. The subtitle “departure from collective...
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I want to be an olive tree
I love olives. I love the Psalms. Well . . . some of them . . . some times. Partly. Like the Psalm that greeted me this morning at the cabin far from the news. Old olive tree in Karystos, Euboia,...
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The Gospel of the Loser
The beginning of this commentary will sound familiar to those who have read “The Counterfeit Gospel” (Jan. 29, 2022). The beginning through “The Gospel of Jesus the Loser” is edited and amplified....
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The gods Made Trump
“God Made Trump” is a masterpiece of cunning. Borrowing creation images from the Book of Genesis 1-3 and the Good Shepherd of fPsalm 23, Ezekiel 34:2-34, John 10:1-2), the three-minute video posted on...
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The New Nationalist Bible and “Happy Holy Week”
Who but a sociopath on his way to trial on charges of buying a porn star’s silence would think the American people would fall for a stunt like this? It’s a short step from selling gold sneakers for...
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Understanding Satan: The Personification of Trickery and Con Artistry
In the eyes of QAnon and Christian fundamentalism, I’m a heretic. I don’t believe in Satan. Not that Satan, the devilish opponent of God. But trying to make some sense of life these days has led me to...
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Even a Parrot Can Quote Scripture
Pull down thy vanity, it is not manMade courage, or made order, or made gracePull down thy vanity, I say pull down.Learn of the green world that can be thy place . Ezra Pound, Canto LXXLI They’re not...
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Confronting Arrogance and Injustice: Insights from God’s Word to Sennacherib
A personal reflection on God’s word to Sennacherib I know your sitting downand your going out and coming in,and your raging against MeIsaiah 37:28 19th-century wood engraving by Gustave Doré depicting...
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Reflecting on the Ten Commandments
News that the Ten Commandments will be posted in all schools and public places in Louisiana and Oklahoma took me back to Mark Twain’s encounter with a sanctimonious businessman notorious for his...
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