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Mental Health Break—The Worship Service To End All Worship Services
By
Kristina Robb-Dover
It’s been a while since we’ve had a mental health break. As a little bit of comic relief at the start of another work week, this clip from a worship service somewhere in America comes from saint and sinner Paul. The comments from readers are just about as funny as the weird break dancing routine…
Christian Purity: Is God’s Mission Possible When Purity Rules?
By
Kristina Robb-Dover
I had a really weird, somewhat distressing interaction this week, and it is still on my mind days later. It’s one of those uncomfortable encounters that you would like to press the “replay” button on and do over. Like a v-mail recording that you can erase and re-record. This conversation, as someone privy to it…
Jesus and the Rich Man: A Sermon on the “Hitler” of Passages.
By
Kristina Robb-Dover
It’s rare that I find myself thinking about Sunday’s sermon midweek. This Sunday our pastor Drew Ditzel preached on the familiar story of Jesus and the rich man (Mark 10). The rich man, who says he has kept all the commandments perfectly and has lived a righteous life, comes to Jesus asking what more he…
The Lie of Invulnerability
By
Kristina Robb-Dover
This last week has been insane. Family sickness, repairs, car issues, multiple calls from school nurses, including one in which the nurse expressed concern my 7-year-old son had been bitten by a brown recluse spider…and just when I thought it couldn’t get worse…viral pinkeye. Two puffy, leaky, red hot swollen eyes and multiple doctor visits…
Humor Relief for Religious Extremism
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Kristina Robb-Dover
Once again, humor and satire are coming to my aid this morning, this time in response to the twisted and evil extensions of religion that seeks to coerce and control with violence and worldly forms of power (best embodied these days in the form of ISIS and its affiliates). The Palestinian television satire show “Watan…
“AA” Recovery Groups—Spirituality for the Non-Religious, Hope for the Church?
By
Kristina Robb-Dover
This week I’ve been researching the history of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and getting up to speed on all things related to addiction and Christian addiction recovery—for that new book project I mentioned last week. Funny thing is, my research interests seem to be once again relating to that demographic we know best as the “spiritual…
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