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Thoughts that slide sideways

Category: Church Stuff (page 5 of 7)

Michaelmas

It’s late September and that means that it is now culturally appropriate to embrace my spooky side. Pumpkin spice everything is all well and good, but I love the darkening days and ghost stories and howling chill that delightfully shivers. I imagine a little Edgar Allen Poe sitting on my shoulder, muttering creepy “nevermore’s” into […]

Coming Out of Egypt With Both Hands Full

It’s a mild day. Those are the only kinds of May days that I enjoy. Otherwise, May just reminds me that the humidity and hornets of summer are almost here. There’s a good bit of breeze out there. Storms are on the way. “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May” and all that. […]

To Be Healed of a Heresy

I recently was re-reading excerpts from the best book on preaching. In it, Keller quotes the philosopher Charles Taylor, in A Secular Age, in which he says that “no one has a right to interfere with me for my own good, but only to prevent harm to others.” Taylor was summarizing what might be called […]

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