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You learn a lot about a culture by how it treats its dead, and indeed how it approaches death.  This post will not be an historical survey of the practices and approaches of differing cultures. Rather I would like to reflect on the meaning of death and a Christian theological approach to death, as well…

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/isbn=1587432749/bakerbookhouseA http://www.brazospress.com/Book.asp?isbn=978-1-58743-274-3 Most of us by now are familiar with the tried and true joke about the difference between an offering and a sacrifice.  The story goes that a hen and a pig are having a conversation early one morning and the hen is bemoaning that she must go lay some eggs so the farmer…

Perhaps you’ve never met a Youpper.  Perhaps you’ve never been there either— to the upper peninsula of Michigan, where beer freezes at football games in the late fall.  Youpper’s are a hardy lot.  They can easily give Green Bay Packer fans a run for their money.  And at this time of year everywhere in upper…

CHAPTER THIRTY:  ABIDING TRUTHS               The meal on Wednesday evening was not elaborate, and the mood was more somber than celebratory. After two days of confrontation with authorities and some people in the crowds, the disciples wondered what could be next.  Especially prominent in their minds was Jesus’ parable about the workers in the…
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