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Sleeping Christians: Wake. Up.
By
Carolyn Henderson
Some days, I’d prefer to leave the amusement park and just go someplace else. It is on these days that I ask God, “Do you not care, anymore, about your people? Are you just going to let them die, asleep, complacently living a life of outward ablutions and inward materialism?” I was in Costco the…
Missional. Intentional. Authentic: Meaningless
By
Carolyn Henderson
Considering that we follow, serve, worship, and emulate the most radical individual to have ever walked on this planet — Jesus — Christians can be really boring. Oh, I ‘m not talking about people who are suffering, and suffering hard, for their belief in Christ. I’m talking about people whose ability to communicate, and think,…
The U.S. Is not a Christian Nation — and It Never Was
By
Carolyn Henderson
I was visiting a friend in the nursing home last week when I found myself trapped, holding my sleeping friend’s hand, forced to sit in the same room with a Christian television show. Those of you who read me regularly know that I’m not big on TV in any form — corporate network news with…
God. God? GOD! Are You There?
By
Carolyn Henderson
Last month I regaled you with tales of my two hours in the Dentist Chair (God, the Dentist), and how we find spiritual lessons in the oddest places. This month found me in that chair again, for only an hour and three-quarters, and lest you think that I am a Twinkie fiend or something, I…
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