The Iniquity of Inequity

When we moved to this part of Pennsylvania, our son was one year old. As we prepared to find a community to live in, we researched the schools, looking at…

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Trying to Follow Jesus

I think that it has always been easy to be a Christian in America, but I also think it has always been hard to be a follower of Jesus in…

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Blaming the Victim

For most of my life I have heard women’s stories about how they have been abused by men. Every single one of them who was willing to talk about it…

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Spiritual Grownups

Jesus used nature a lot when describing what faithful living was supposed to be like. He told a story about a man who owned property that had a tree that…

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Transform, Not Conform

I seem to be stuck in Romans 12 this week; bear with me – this is some of the Apostle Paul’s best work. The chapter starts by telling the reader…

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Overcome Evil With Good

Yesterday, I wrote about love being genuine. This is part of Paul’s Letter to the Romans, and in that chapter (12), there is a long laundry list of expectations of…

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Let Love Be Genuine

The Apostle Paul was a very devout, smart man, and I love much of what he wrote to the churches he was starting and overseeing – and there are also…

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