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2013-03-21T15:11:46+00:00

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Giving Up Guns for Lent (Luke 4:1-13)

Last updated on: March 21, 2013 at 3:11 pm By Odyssey Networks

ByEric D. Barreto Obviously, Jesus didn’t own a gun, never said anything directly about firearms. He couldn’t have. Of course, that won’t solve the debates now broiling this nation about violence and the people and tools that perpetuate it. Nonetheless, the fact that Jesus has nothing to say about guns has not stopped a number of pundits from extrapolating Jesus’ ethics on gun violence. In recent days, some Christians have tried to construct a case that Jesus himself would support... Read more

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2013-03-21T15:10:51+00:00

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We’ll Walk Hand in Hand?

Last updated on: March 21, 2013 at 3:10 pm By Odyssey Networks

By Rev. Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder, Ph.D. “The old avocations by which colored men obtained a livelihood are rapidly, unceasingly and inevitably passing into other hands; every hour sees the black man elbowed out of employment by some newly arrived emigrant, whose hunger and whose color are thought to give him a better title to the place.” -Frederick Douglass “Learn Trades or Starve” (1853) The Obama Administration and a bipartisan group in the Senate are making serious turns to tackle immigration... Read more

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2013-02-04T15:27:17+00:00

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Immigration Reform and the Challenges of Generosity (Luke 4:22-30)

Last updated on: February 4, 2013 at 3:27 pm By Odyssey Networks

By Matthew L. Skinner Charity doesn’t leave us unchanged, which is just one reason why it’s hard to make ourselves do it. To be more specific: when we extend generosity and justice to others, it alters our relationship to them. Especially when those “others” are foreign to us. Hospitality has ways of making the people who receive it come inside and stick around, whether we really want them to or not. We see this on display in Luke 4:22-30, which... Read more

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2013-01-23T16:42:01+00:00

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The Abortion Debate: We’re All in This Together

Last updated on: January 23, 2013 at 4:42 pm By Odyssey Networks

By Barbara K Lundblad This is a memorable week: on Monday the inauguration of President Obama on the holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., and on Tuesday the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision by the Supreme Court. Some people will celebrate all three with thanksgiving. Others will find nothing to celebrate – especially the decision of January 22, 1973 that struck down state laws banning abortion. The 40-Year Impact of Roe v. Wade on the United States... Read more

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2013-01-16T18:49:20+00:00

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A Vision for America: John 2:1-11

Last updated on: January 16, 2013 at 6:49 pm By Odyssey Networks

By Reverend Dr. Alvin O’Neal Jackson “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.” John 2:10 Occupy the Dream Spurred on by the Occupy Wall Street movement, African-American leaders have banded together to forge the Occupy the Dream movement to highlight the widening gap between the rich and poor. Economic injustice was a focus of Dr. Martin Luther King’s... Read more

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2013-01-10T18:20:39+00:00

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Waiting on the Messiah and Presidential Expectations: A Study of Luke

Last updated on: January 10, 2013 at 6:20 pm By Odyssey Networks

By David A. Sánchez, Ph.D. It is an odd juxtaposition, December 21, 2012 and January 21, 2013. The former date representing the “so-called” Mayan apocalypse where the usual suspects prepared for the end of the world – many of whom were Christians awaiting the second coming of Christ – and the latter date, which is the day President Barack Obama will be inaugurated for his second term. In my estimation, this odd twenty-first century connection reflects the event known as... Read more

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2013-01-03T19:42:27+00:00

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Frankincense, Myrrh and a Toothbrush? Matthew 2:1-12

Last updated on: January 3, 2013 at 7:42 pm By Odyssey Networks

By Lisa Nichols Hickman In As I Lay Dying, the main character Anse appears self-absorbed when at his wife’s death he says, “God’s will be done. . . . Now I can get them teeth.” His character will certainly not be remembered for altruism. But Anse will be remembered for the physical effects of poverty: feet marred by labor, a spine permanently bent, skin unable to sweat from sunstroke suffered tending the fields, and a mouth without teeth. Sumter Faith... Read more

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2013-01-03T19:43:06+00:00

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The Hell of Parenting: A Study of 1 Samuel

Last updated on: January 3, 2013 at 7:43 pm By Odyssey Networks

By Jacob D. Myers Few narratives in the Hebrew Bible are more foreign to us than this week’s lectionary.We do not give away our children. In a society determined by socio-economic forces utterly beyond the control of individual citizens (e.g., globalization) we do our best to prepare ourselves for the inevitability of change. But what happens when we lose our footing? Contemporary life changes too fast for habits and routines to have any chance to settle into a pattern. Western... Read more

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2013-01-03T19:46:16+00:00

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Can We Speak of God’s Activity, in Triumph or Tragedy? (Luke 1:39-55)

Last updated on: January 3, 2013 at 7:46 pm By Odyssey Networks

ByMathew Skinner Sometimes, the worse the tragedy, the more abhorrent the theology it elicits. Still numb from the overwhelming evil perpetrated against helpless children and schoolteachers last Friday, now we have to read idiocy from James Dobson and others who declare the senseless carnage a sign of God’s judgment against America. His words are disgraceful. I find them exploitative and unchristian. Certain Christians seem compelled to speak for God in disorienting moments like these, and the results are frequently terrible.... Read more

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2013-01-03T19:38:14+00:00

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On the Fiscal Cliff with John the Baptist: Luke 3:7-18

Last updated on: January 3, 2013 at 7:38 pm By Odyssey Networks

By Carolyn J. Sharp Recently I had the unsettling experience of receiving unsolicited financial advice from John the Baptist. Not directly, of course— his counsel was mediated through an ancient codex, the Gospel of Luke. Written in the latter part of the first century, this text has been lovingly interpreted by monks, artists, preachers, musicians, and biblical scholars from past eras to today. Luke is a rich source of traditions about Jesus of Nazareth, and given the Gospel’s clear links... Read more

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