Archive for April, 2009
Sunday, April 19th, 2009
Consider the Pirates and Bernie Madoff?
A friend got my attention the other day when she wrote that few of her female friends had been able to find husbands willing to support them as strong women. When another friend wrote something similar the next day, I began thinking seriously. And when my daughter relayed an NPR report that today’s children are […]
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
Christ Without Religion - Does God Require Blood?
In a recent issue of The Christian Century , theologian Daniel Bell challenges the underpinnings of conventional Christianity, “God does not demand or require blood to redeem us. God neither inflicts violence nor desires suffering in order to set the divine-human relation right. In spite of its pervasiveness in Christian imagery, the cost of communion, […]
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
Christ Without Religion
On the threshold of Holy Week, many Christians understand the importance of what Marcus Borg called Meeting Jesus Again For the First Time. Have you met Jesus again for the first time?
Many people worship Jesus. For the vast majority of Christians, there is only one way to embrace Jesus. But many of us aren’t satisfied […]
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
A Challenge To Find Spiritual Truth
Well a funny thing happened in my life. I am not certain what to make of it. Neither am I certain what to do with it. So right now I am just sitting with it. On March 23, I began a program called Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) with a local hospital. This can lead to […]