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2014-10-16T14:41:44-04:00

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Freedom and the Church’s Sermons

Last updated on: October 16, 2014 at 2:41 pm By Kenneth Tanner

According to the Houston Chronicle, attorneys for the city of Houston have subpoenaed sermons given by prominent local pastors opposed to what the paper calls an “embattled” equal rights ordinance. Their subpoena seeks “all speeches, presentations, and sermons” related to the new ordinance, to the mayor of Houston, Annise Parker, homosexuality, or gender identity “prepared by, delivered by, revised by, approved by you or in your possession.” Regardless of the issues at stake, this is beyond troubling. Any politician who... Read more

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2014-10-16T14:40:35-04:00

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Either Side of the Cross

Last updated on: October 16, 2014 at 2:40 pm By Kenneth Tanner

In the ancient world and in this brave new one, Jesus hangs on a tree, a God who bleeds and a sinless man. He hangs there from the foundation of the world and through every passing age. To one side, looking on, are those who deny God, or who worship gods they fashion, or who seek a life for themselves apart from the Love that fashioned them. On the other side, the leaders of churches, synagogues, mosques, and still yet... Read more

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2014-10-16T14:39:43-04:00

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A More Genuine Sympathy

Last updated on: October 16, 2014 at 2:39 pm By Kenneth Tanner

The sympathy cards available at Hallmark or the drugstore rarely contain anything that could remind a grief-stricken friend of the Resurrection. Even the sort of cards found in a Christian or Catholic bookstore have a tendency to follow some variation of contemporary spiritual sentiments: “Your loved one lives on in your memory” or something worse like “They’ve returned to the stars.” It is beautiful that we remember our loved ones and carry their best moments in our hearts, and it... Read more

2014-10-04T15:02:59-04:00

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A Heart That Is Broken Is A Heart That Is Open

Last updated on: October 4, 2014 at 3:02 pm By Kenneth Tanner

“A heart that is broken is a heart that is open.” —U2 The suffering faith of the first Christians, a faith that changed a world, flows from a broken, contrite heart that forgives and takes joy in the redemption that Christ is bringing, the reconciliation of all things to God by the blood of the cross through which Jesus makes peace. It is not surprising that fundamentalism (of all kinds) and the sort of scientism that denies God alike tend... Read more

2014-10-04T13:55:00-04:00

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Everything Is in Motion

Last updated on: October 4, 2014 at 1:55 pm By Kenneth Tanner

© 2014 Stephanie Plomarity We once thought the earth was stationary and the heavens revolved around us. It made sense of what happens in the dome over our heads, day and night, and it would still make sense if all we went on was the sky. Humans abandoned this perspective a long time ago. When they have a reason to think about it, most today imagine the sun is the still point of our solar system; that the planets circle... Read more

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2014-10-21T14:19:16-04:00

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It Takes a Woman

Last updated on: October 21, 2014 at 2:19 pm By Kenneth Tanner

Victor Vasnetsov (Russian, 1848-1926) The Gospel can be stated this simply, really…God made human at the considerable suffering of a woman. I love the incarnate poetry: that God involves both sexes in our redemption. In fact, it was the only way we could participate, male and female, in God’s remaking of humanity in Jesus Christ. Some may object to the “whiteness” but Jesus took on humanity, every flesh tone and difference, every face and shape. He is the Everyman. Read more

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2014-10-07T10:57:12-04:00

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It’s Not About Me

Last updated on: October 7, 2014 at 10:57 am By Kenneth Tanner

We live, in fact, in a society that is so subjective and individualistic in character that it finds itself less and less able to tolerate anything like a church. Philip Turner III Bingo. The origin of our turnoff about church is in us. The church is first not something about me. I come to the body of Christ—the people of God yet alive from centuries past, a gathering of all the saints, seated before I was born, that yet continues... Read more

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2014-09-27T05:56:56-04:00

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Turning Off Omniscience

Last updated on: September 27, 2014 at 5:56 am By Kenneth Tanner

I avoid televised news media altogether. I have done this for two years. As C.S. Lewis once remarked, if it’s big enough (Ferguson, ISIS) you hear about it anyway. Lewis lived in rural England when radio and landline telephones were the cutting edge of communication. Today, those connected to social media hear (almost instantly) about anything that would make the evening news. The human psyche is not wired for omniscience, not meant to contain so much information. It can (sometimes)... Read more

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