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Book Reviews and Theological Rants of a Liberal Christian

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Book Reviews and Theological Rants of a Liberal Christian

Book Reviews

Book review: The Abbey

, November 3, 2015February 24, 2025

I believe this book could be comforting to the right reader, but it just simply didn’t resonate with me.

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Book Reviews

Book review: Gifts of the Dark Wood

, October 28, 2015October 28, 2015

Elnes steers us toward seven gifts that are found only where we feel unsettled. These are the gifts of uncertainty, of emptiness, of being thunderstruck, of getting lost, of temptation…

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Book review: Wearing God

, October 20, 2015October 28, 2015

How we talk about God matters. When we call God our “friend,” it invites a new perspective.

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Bible Commentary

Luke 15:11-12, Drop Dead, Dad

, October 19, 2015

Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them. There are many levels to the parable of the prodigal son, but this one is often neglected. In…

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Book review: Charity Detox

, October 7, 2015October 21, 2015

The author of Toxic Charity is at it again. Lupton insists that most of the work we do in the name of charity does more harm than good.

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Bible Commentary

John 5:14, A Second Look At Healing (part II of II)

, September 30, 2015

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.” //Yesterday, I wrote about how Jesus “healed” a beggar at the pool of Bethesda. The man picked up his mat and walked off,…

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John 5:9 A Second Look At Healing (part I of II)

, September 29, 2015September 29, 2015

And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. //In John chapter 5, Jesus comes across a beggar who had for the last 38 years suffered an “infirmity.” The man had been lying for a long time at a magical pool, a pool with the power…

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Book review: The Tweetable Pope

, September 27, 2015October 21, 2015

A friend jokingly said that she believes in the second coming now, and this time Jesus is wearing a beanie.

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Bible Commentary

Psalm 104:23, Too Much Labor

, June 4, 2015

Man goes out to his work And to his labor until the evening. //Oh, how I wish that were true! In the evening, our labor just begins anew. Leslie and I are finding out that starting up our new Fantasy Football service demands more time than we have available, and…

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Luke 24:46, How long was Jesus in the tomb?

, May 22, 2015

And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: –Luke 24:46 //Most of us honor Good Friday as the day of Christ’s death, and celebrate the following Sunday as the day of his resurrection. Meaning,…

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