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Faith Fallacies: God Won’t Give You More Than You Can Handle
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Last week I saw a quotation at @deadsoulpoetry on X (formerly Twitter) that said, “2000...
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Faith Fallacies: “Everything Happens For a Reason”
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Monday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States, when we remember a...
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Barbie, the Golden Globes, and the Church
Can we talk about this past weekend’s Golden Globe awards for a minute? The Barbie...
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Why I Love the Bible’s “Christmas That Isn’t Christmas”
While I love the Nativity story, there are days when I need to hear not...
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Today’s Massacre of the Innocents in Gaza and Israel
Some Sobering Numbers Over 8,800 children have been killed in Gaza, Israel, and the West...
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My governor is a goat. Not the G.O.A.T. as in how we've started to abbreviate the title...
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Unto Us a Child Is Born—But First, Contractions
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