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‘Now is the winter of our discontent’ said the Bard, but for me its a time for reading dis content or dat content. I do a lot of reading in January during all the cold and snow. And there is hardly anything more fun than curling up in my reading chair and reading a good…

Geoffrey Studdert-Kennedy was not, by classic standards a great poet.  But as a Chaplain in WWI who saw everything in France in the Maginot line he reflected long and deep not just on human beings inhumanity and cruelty to other humans but also about where God is in a time of crisis, disaster, great suffering. …

January is normally the dead zone for movies, but somehow this year it has turned into theological movie month what with The Edge of Darkness at the end of the movie with Mel Gibson playing an avenging angel of a father with lines like “You’ve got to decide whether you are hanging on the cross…

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/isbn=1587432749/bakerbookhouseA http://www.brazospress.com/Book.asp?isbn=978-1-58743-274-3 Discretionary spending. Its an odd phrase. It suggests a person who has more money than they really know what to do with.   But in fact most of the people who are reading this do have  at least some discretionary funds.   So here is where I say that this money should be in a…

Hard on the heels of devastating tropical storms in 2008 which reaked havoc on the shores of Haiti comes now a 7.0 earthquake followed by a 5.9 aftershock leaving huge swaths of the poorest nation in the western hemisphere in rubble, and untold thousands either dead or badly in need of emergency medical attention And…

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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/isbn=1587432749/bakerbookhouseA http://www.brazospress.com/Book.asp?isbn=978-1-58743-274-3 Myth Three:  If we are just sincere enough in our asking, or simply pray long and fervently enough, God is bound to give us what we ask for.    This whole approach to prayer seems to see prayer as a way of twisting the arm of a God who is reluctant to help.  …

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…
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