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Culture • Christianity & Culture

The Greatest Story Ever [Re]Told

Erin Rodewald | 13 min read

Let me tell you a story… Since ancient of days, these words have held our collective imaginations captive. We all enjoy a good story: to be drawn into a compelling narrative; to be transfixed by flawed but sympathetic characters; to be swept away by conflict, tension, adventure; and finally, to be rescued by resolution, conclusion,...

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Faith • Biblical Reflections

Bad Accounting, An Eccentric Boss, Complaining Employees, and the Kingdom of God

Rev. Matt Lietzen | 14 min read

Jesus’ parables are stories Jesus told, stories each with a particular purpose – not disconnected moral fables about how to be better people but rather stories to immerse us in another world, a truer world that he calls the kingdom of God. With each story, Jesus gives us a glimpse into, and helps us perceive...

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Faith • Biblical Reflections

Bashing Babies on Boulders? Making Sense of Psalm 137

Joe Palekas | 11 min read

Where were you on May 2, 2011? I was at an Usher concert with a few friends. It was a great concert, and I enjoyed hearing Usher perform several hits from his newest album, Raymond v. Raymond. The concert, though, is not the reason I remember that day. I remember May 2, 2011 because of...

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Culture • Current Conversations

There Is No Bible Without Migrants

Rev. Dr. Casey A. Strine | 10 min read

Haitians at the southern border. Afghan resettlement. Mexican families. Caravans from Central America. Syrian refugees. Governors as far north as Alaska demanding meetings to address the ‘unenforced borders’ of America. How to think and respond to people coming to the United States of America is never far from the media’s headlines.  Research suggests that many...

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Faith • Biblical Reflections

The Stories Jesus Told

Dr. Bruce Lowe | 13 min read

Stories. You have to love them. And most of us do; most of us enjoy hearing a good story, not to mention telling one! Whether it be sitting as a child or adult with grandparents, hearings stories of old, or sitting with a teacher or parent (as a young child) having a book read to...

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Faith • Biblical Reflections

What the World Needs Now: Zacchaeus

Alexis Stanford | 7 min read

Picture the scene. Jesus, walking on the streets of Jericho, surrounded by his disciples and talking with them as they go. Perhaps they are talking about the Law, or maybe of the Psalmist; Jesus, humming these lines softly as he listens to their questions: “Oh God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my...

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