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2012-04-11T14:42:28-06:00

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Tuck Me In

Last updated on: April 11, 2012 at 2:42 pm By K. Mulhern

We have all seen the galling pictures of poor children in underdeveloped countries around the world, and perhaps we have become inured to their connections with real, everyday life. Photographer James Mollison has seen something else through his lens and it gets behind the stereotypical shots of poverty and privilege. His recently released book, Where Children Sleep, introduces us to children around the world and their most intimate corners of privacy . . . or lack of it, as the... Read more

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2011-07-29T16:23:19-06:00

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You’ve Got Mail: Forward or Perish

Last updated on: July 29, 2011 at 4:23 pm By K. Mulhern

There isn’t much in scripture that seems to indicate Our Lord will be using my email habits to judge my soul. I don’t think He’ll have to look that hard. Nevertheless, forwarded emails about Jesus that demand I send them on to ten people or surrender my salvation make me nervous. “Stop what you’re doing and read this email. If you love Jesus, pray for the person who sent this to you and then forward this to ten people. If... Read more

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2011-07-26T12:00:57-06:00

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Real Transformation or a Pleasant Experience?

Last updated on: July 26, 2011 at 12:00 pm By K. Mulhern

Today I ran across an interesting commentary on the quick fixes churches apply to the church growth problem. Dan Dick was writing about the United Methodist experience, but his comments could apply across the board. He considered the measures the denomination and local churches had taken to reverse church decline, and noted that “The United Methodist Church has suffered through over 50 years of “church-in-box” programs that have produced poor results at best.” He goes on to describe the effects... Read more

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2015-04-03T16:35:32-06:00

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Vision: A Creedal Reflection on Psalm 10

Last updated on: April 3, 2015 at 4:35 pm By K. Mulhern

“Why, O Lord, do you stand off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?” The deaths of 68 young people at a camp in Norway silences us with horror and grief. The looming menace of the federal government’s default makes us stoop with dread and frustration. The drought and famine in Somalia appalls and saddens us. Violence in Afghanistan, cholera and reconstruction in Haiti, the loss and destruction in Japan, the increasing political tension in Venezuela, the arrest... Read more

2011-07-22T18:12:30-06:00

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Beer Brewing and Carpentry

Last updated on: July 22, 2011 at 6:12 pm By K. Mulhern

This week a handful of us had a lively conversation about Dorothy Sayers’ “Why Work?” essay. Written in 1942, the essay tackles head-on Sayers’ concerns about her society’s consumption patterns and what they say about our perception of the value of work. The early part of the essay considers the economic consequences of unrestrained capitalism – its easy, throw-away social attitudes toward products, its aggravated and victimized attitude toward employers, its lethargy and fatigue in jobs for which we are... Read more

2015-04-03T16:40:45-06:00

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Borders Blues

Last updated on: April 3, 2015 at 4:40 pm By K. Mulhern

It’s not like I was a frequent customer. Its absence doesn’t directly affect me at all. But Borders Books is no more, and I have the Borders blues. Oh, I freely admit I’ve been an Amazon junkie for a long while. (Sorry, Steven.) But bookstores are not shopping sites only; they’re destinations. Bookstores are for the imagination, not just the objective. Bookstores are for wandering, and quick reading of books I would never have picked up anywhere else, and reminding... Read more

2011-07-20T14:53:36-06:00

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Waving the White Flag

Last updated on: July 20, 2011 at 2:53 pm By K. Mulhern

After a long while in the spiritual life, most of us come to the point where we realize we’re making very little “progress.” Over and over we come to the shocking realization that the same weaknesses, the same pettiness, the same hardheartedness plague us in ever new and shifting forms. Like germs, mutating to fit every new circumstance and every valiant effort to be slain, these frightful personal demons relentlessly guard us from grace. Enough, already, we weep. When will... Read more

2011-07-19T11:15:08-06:00

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An Ancient Radical

Last updated on: July 19, 2011 at 11:15 am By K. Mulhern

The bones drying on the shelves … not so different from the valley of dry bones, the lifeless remnants of community. Can these bones live? The old prophet was wise enough not to posture, not to philosophize, not to speculate, not to issue any power statements. O Sovereign Lord, you alone know. All around us are the dry bones of God’s people. Catholics devastated by their clergy’s abuses of power. Anglicans staggering through disunity and mistrust. Evangelicals tossed to and... Read more

2011-07-18T17:23:53-06:00

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Sniffing Doldrums

Last updated on: July 18, 2011 at 5:23 pm By K. Mulhern

Sometimes it seems that Christians of every stripe get more energy from differentiating themselves from one another than they do in uniting with one another. “I’m not that type of Christian.” I do this, I don’t do that; I believe this, I don’t believe that; I vote this way, I don’t vote that way; I used to associate with these people, I never associate with them anymore; I am for this, I am not for that; I watch this guy,... Read more

2011-02-10T17:56:38-07:00

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The Peculiar Society: Our Christian Memory

Last updated on: February 10, 2011 at 5:56 pm By K. Mulhern

When we study the beginnings of the Church, we face first of all the shock that the world exhibited when they heard the gospel message. What?? A crucified King? What kind of upside-down story is this? We want a god who is powerful, not weak; victorious, not defeated; regal, not spit upon. And resurrected? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not really, right? Just ritualistically? Wait, you mean, really? (Note to those who argue that Jesus wasn’t physically raised from the dead: No... Read more

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