Time-lapse Short! from Will Huckle on Vimeo. Spring… and a young woman’s fancy lightly turns to *ahem* thoughts of love. It is unfortunate that while our culture is steeped in images of sex and continual allusions to sexuality, our idea of sex, whether Christian or not, tends to be inextricably linked to things which are
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A friend once told me he suspected that the world and in fact, life itself, is a kind of divine conspiracy with the single purpose of molding souls – a vale of soul-making, he said. Perhaps that is so. Perhaps the moment we have obtained the right shape, have finally been burnished to his likeness,
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This is an idea for a brief sermon I hope to deliver to an actual audience someday – hopefully at Harvard. Two years ago, most of our campus was swept away by the election of President Barack Obama. The night he won, it sounded like everyone in Cambridge was outside my room shouting, dancing, celebrating,
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In his final prayer before his arrest, Jesus prayed for all believers – “that all of them may be one, Father, just as You are in me and I am in You” (John 17:21a). His prayer, simply put, was for a united Church, a united Body, and a united Kingdom. Two millennia later, there exist
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“And he said to me, ‘Son of man, can these bones live?’ And I answered, ‘O Lord God, you know.’” Winter is coming – slipping slowly down from the North to press itself under our doors and through our skins and into our bones. When it reaches the marrow, will it find there a chilled
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An Introduction I was talking recently with a friend who grew up in the Church but eventually fell away from Christian faith, and she said something deeply troubling to me: In fifteen years of church and Sunday School attendance and of being told over and over again to build a “personal relationship” with Jesus Christ,
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A New York Times article from last Thursday describes how Rev. Ken Pagano has asked members of his congregation to bring their guns to the sanctuary. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Ken Pagano, the pastor of the New Bethel Church here, is passionate about gun rights. He shoots regularly at the local firing range, and his sermon
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