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2 / scripture and authority
I hope the latter chapters of this work will move faster than this one. I took a very long time with many starts and stops (much longer stops than starts) trying to put my thoughts together on the scriptures. I grew up in a church tradition that highly valued scriptural fluency and my cultural values…
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A Collection of Quotes from Against the Wind
Some quotes I collected from my reading of Dorothee Soelle’s memoir, Against the Wind: A Memoir of a Radical Christian (ISBN: 0-8006-3079-3) where she writes about the events and relationships that shaped her life. Each of these quotes could get a post on their own; maybe I’ll just do a few select ones. Anyway, with…
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Bending the rules
The passage for the sermon this past Sunday came from several scenes in Acts 16. As I was reading along, my thoughts began to wander about a detail that wasn’t addressed in the sermon, but stirred many thoughts in me as I considered how faith connects with cultures. In the first few verses of Acts…
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reading Dorothee Sölle and the passive church
I can’t remember where I first encountered her name; it was probably a few weeks ago on a podcast or an article I was reading. I learned that she was a German liberation theologian in the wake of WWII. I was intrigued enough to search the library for any of her books; when the search…
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Holy Week and Reflections on Easter 2025
It’s Easter Monday. The lead up to Easter this year was a bit different because I was away with friends and family having an adventure in Utah. We went to Moab and visited Arches National Park, Dead Horse Point State Park, and Canyonlands National Park, then skied for a few days — our first time…
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Lingering identity
Last week I attended a book launch event at my work place. Mark, the director of the seminary, was sharing about his recently published book, Sharing the Crust, a story about friendship and a community of saints that developed in Sandtown, Baltimore. The book offers snapshots of communal life in Sandtown and on relationships between…
