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2010-10-27T12:48:47-05:00

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Does The Bible Mix Religion and Politics?

Last updated on: October 27, 2010 at 12:48 pm By Guest Contributor

Editor’s note: Guest blogger The Christian Left (a consortium of Progressive Christian writers and thinkers whose web page recently went live) submits the following article on biblical examples for mixing church and state. Both the Old and New Testaments stress the importance of government for protection and for maintaining order. In the Bible, kings or other rulers were expected to rule with wisdom and justice. The Old Testament contains story after story of wicked, greedy and oppressive rulers who brought disaster... Read more

2010-10-26T12:48:47-05:00

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Dirty Feet

Last updated on: October 26, 2010 at 12:48 pm By Guest Contributor

Editor’s note: Please welcome our first guest blogger: Janet Conrad. She’s the author of the blog “Nuggets n Bits” and the admin for Facebook’s Christians Tired of Being Misrepresented page. If you aren’t familiar with her FB page, I strongly encourage you to check it out! Washing someone’s feet in bible times was like cleaning someone else’s toilet in modern times. What would you do if you knew that the President was coming to your home to clean your toilet? ... Read more

2010-10-26T12:43:47-05:00

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Hate the Sign

Last updated on: October 26, 2010 at 12:43 pm By Guest Contributor

I’ve been bothered, and I suppose curious, for awhile about people who claim to be Christian and yet passionately carry around signs like this: And look, she’s smiling. God loves a joyful hater…or something like that. It’s almost as if they can’t be bothered with the actual words of Jesus. You know, pesky little sayings that get in the way of genuine American hatred. Things like, “Love your neighbor as yourself” and “Let him who is without sin cast the... Read more

2010-10-21T12:48:47-05:00

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Get Up, Stand Up: Flipping Tables for God

Last updated on: October 21, 2010 at 12:48 pm By Guest Contributor

In many ways, this blog page is my response to what I see as a general malaise that has fallen across Christianity in the U.S. We have bought so far into a kumbaya, turn the other cheek, Jesus is more of a doormat than a door theology, that we have rendered ourselves ineffectual. We think that being nice and kind and loving to one another means not making anyone upset and being non-confrontational. Worse yet, we have started measuring our... Read more

2014-07-16T17:10:45-05:00

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Change or Die: The Irony of Left Behind

Last updated on: July 16, 2014 at 5:10 pm By Guest Contributor

For me ‘Left Behind’ has become much more than a book. Much like ‘Tea Party’ has colloquially become a descriptive for a particular archetype of a group of people, Left Behind has become the same for me. Recognizing that I am working with generalities here and that generalities always do a disservice to some people who identify with the group, for me ‘Left Behind’ has come to describe a particular type of church goer. (I use ‘church goer’ here... Read more

2014-07-16T17:09:00-05:00

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Set Adrift on a Myth

Last updated on: July 16, 2014 at 5:09 pm By Guest Contributor

2 Timothy 4:3-4 3For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, 4and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths. We have wandered – drifted if you will. We, the Church, have drifted away from the sound doctrine of the One who came to show us that love has no bounds. There are... Read more

2014-07-16T15:04:18-05:00

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“Reinventing” Church is the Problem

Last updated on: July 16, 2014 at 3:04 pm By Guest Contributor

I meet monthly with a group of ministers to discuss the current state of The Church and possible paths forward. We guide our discussions by working our way through books that do much the same thing. I suppose our hope is that the people who write these books will have much more experience in helping churches gain new life than any one of us individually might have and thus give us much needed guidance in doing the same for... Read more

2014-10-11T08:03:58-05:00

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National Coming Out for Equality Day

Last updated on: October 11, 2014 at 8:03 am By Guest Contributor

“He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness,and to walk humbly with your God?” Micah 6:8 Today, Oct. 11, is National Coming Out Day. The fact that we even have to have this day is a sad statement about how committed we are as the Body of Christ to justice and to equality. It is also a sad statement about the hate... Read more

2014-07-16T14:48:40-05:00

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Do…or die.

Last updated on: July 16, 2014 at 2:48 pm By Guest Contributor

A good friend sent me an email this morning that reminded me of how important the call to the modern church to change or be prepared to die is. He referenced a new book by Gil Rendle, Journey in the Wilderness: New Life for Maine Churches. A quote that he shared really hit home. It reminds me of what I’ve seen over and over again in mainline churches: “In his work on organizational change, Robert Quinn writes about a... Read more

2014-07-16T14:55:52-05:00

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The Seperation of Church…and Hate.

Last updated on: July 16, 2014 at 2:55 pm By Guest Contributor

In light of the hate crimes that continue to make news, crimes directed at homosexuals or anyone who others might believe to be gay or to be a lesbian, I have to make a statement about it’s relationship with The Church.But first, let me start with an apology. If any of you are uncomfortable about hearing about homosexuality and words like ‘gay’ and ‘lesbian’ in discussion of the church, then I am sorry. I am sorry, that we ministers... Read more

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