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2017-04-06T15:32:18-04:00

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Spiritual refugees

Last updated on: April 6, 2017 at 3:32 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

Most of us are refugees in someway. Many are emotional or spiritual refugees, as distant and isolated from others as physical refugees are removed from homelands. We are separated from feeling our own pain, refugees rejecting our own emotions. Unaware of how or why we feel what we feel. When we don’t know who we are, it’s easier to emotionally separate from others in need. Some white men lord over the culture and society they were born into like roosters... Read more

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2017-03-31T20:26:33-04:00

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God's power in weakness

Last updated on: March 31, 2017 at 8:26 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

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2017-03-30T15:55:37-04:00

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The Jesus you follow

Last updated on: March 30, 2017 at 3:55 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

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2017-03-28T03:34:48-04:00

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Republican Christians

Last updated on: March 28, 2017 at 3:34 am By Jim Meisner Jr.

Not since the Reformation has the choice been so clear. On one side, Christians who read the red letters of the Bible and find in the teachings of Jesus a call to help the poor, support widows, orphans and aliens, and to respond with love, above all else. And on the other side, Christians who make excuses in their faith to justify beliefs. These Republican Christians invest their faith in “but” theology. “I agree Jesus says that,” Republican Christians say,... Read more

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2017-03-25T18:51:17-04:00

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Family reunion

Last updated on: March 25, 2017 at 6:51 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

Note: This isn’t the sort of thing I usually write on this site. But, here it is. A day on Walton’s Mountain Thousands traveled to remote Schuyler, Virginia this weekend for the Waltons 45th Anniversary Reunion. From more than a dozen states fans made the pilgrimage to the hometown of Waltons creator Earl Hamner, Jr. to remember the hear-warming drama set during the Great Depression and WW II. The family program about life in a small Virginia town aired from... Read more

2017-03-17T16:47:27-04:00

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Traditional Irish blessing

Last updated on: March 17, 2017 at 4:47 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

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2017-03-16T15:29:02-04:00

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Resident Aliens

Last updated on: March 16, 2017 at 3:29 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

I met Will Willlimon recently. (His preaching technique was exactly what I was taught in seminary. But that’s another story.) In my first semester of seminary I read Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony, written by Willimon and Stanley Hauerwas. According to Amazon: “Only when the Church enacts its scandalous Jesus-centered tradition will it truly be the body of Christ and transform the world. … Resident Aliens discusses the nature of the church and its relationship to surrounding culture.... Read more

2017-03-10T21:47:02-05:00

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An alternative to war?

Last updated on: March 10, 2017 at 9:47 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

2017-03-07T20:30:11-05:00

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Middle class Messiah

Last updated on: March 7, 2017 at 8:30 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

Recently I wrote: The Bible is clear. Jesus is with the losers, not the leaders. Jesus was an unemployed Palestinian. A Syrian refugee child. A Honduran roofer. Jesus is the dark-skinned woman cleaning your table, your hotel room, your office. Jesus was the poor child of an unmarried mother, not the child of a millionaire or a celebrity. Jesus inherited his family’s poverty, not millions of dollars or a position of power and privilege. Jesus was dark-skinned, dirty, and a... Read more

2017-03-05T12:39:24-05:00

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Joy

Last updated on: March 5, 2017 at 12:39 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

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