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Where All Roads Lead?
There’s this semi-interesting online debate about whether Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD is the best superhero show on network television or the worst. I’m not quite sure how I feel about the conversation. While the show hasn’t quite fit the niche … Continue reading
Run, Barry, Run (2018 Edition)
The Flash returned with new episodes last night. And while it definitely had a “villain-of-the-week” vibe (as is often the case with superhero shows), it also had some nice, not-so-subtle moments that moved the story forward in interesting directions. Marlize … Continue reading
Thinking about Education
Today I had the opportunity to lead out in our school’s annual “faith issues” workshop. One of the aims of the meeting, at least from my perspective, is to continue the conversation of faith integration. The folks over at Comment … Continue reading
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Solo Story Glory
The second full trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story had to do one thing: make the movie much bigger and louder and unexpected that what we saw of the Super Bowl trailer a few months ago. Here’s what we … Continue reading
From Lent to Eastertide
Well, the forty days of the Lenten season have led to the fifty days of Eastertide. This, in turn, takes us up to the Ascension of Jesus and the day of Pentecost (and then to a summer and autumn of … Continue reading
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Between the Gift and the Economy
Over the last few weeks, I’ve tried to articulate some thoughts about church and community. I started by looking at some quotes from authors like Walker Percy and C. S. Lewis. Eventually I landed on and spent some time … Continue reading
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What You Bring to the Table
One could easily assume, based on my reflections over the last couple of weeks, that the plight of the single, celibate adult is the bulk of Ephraim Radner’s point in A Time to Keep. That couldn’t be farther from the … Continue reading
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Working Things Out
In a posthumous collection of his writings titled Spiritual Formation, Henri Nouwen wrote of how we perceive people more often as characters than as individuals. To see others as characters is ultimately to see them as people “to use as we … Continue reading
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Toward Friendship
It was Frederick Buechner who first introduced me to the idea that theology is, on some level, always autobiographical. This is not to dismiss the orthodox body of truth at all but to emphasize the fact that theological truth refracted … Continue reading
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Easter Song
Okay. I have to admit that I haven’t listened to this song just yet. Saving it for the early hours of Easter Sunday. It’s from Andrew Peterson’s Resurrection Letters Volume One.
Space Enough, and Time 