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Treat Them Like a Tax Collector: Reflections on Matthew 18, Church Discipline, and Andrew

February 3, 2012

Jesus offers a model for reconciliation in Matthew 18.15-17. Often, these three verses are used for the opposite of this: alienation. These words operate as a law in some settings, when in fact they are mea...

Of Jaws, Fishing for Men, and the Kingdom of God

Bert Montgomery

January 31, 2012

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Quint the fisherman, played to perfection by the scene-stealing Robert Shaw in the 1975 Steven Spielberg masterpiece, Jaws, was a rugged, thick-skinned, and independent man who played by his own rules and ...

Love Comes to Town

Bert Montgomery

December 28, 2011

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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God … And the Word became flesh and lived among us (John 1:1-2, 14a). Or, as Eugene Peterson puts it, "The Word became flesh and ...

The Better Beard at Christmas: Santa or John the Baptist?

Kent Annan

December 23, 2011

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buy cheap cialisI’ve never donned a beard or red suit for Christmas. So far that’s my personal line. But something happens when you have kids. Categories of cool, kitsch, hip, or tacky no longer matter m...

At The Corner of Injustice, Exploitation and Corruption

Katrina Smith

December 3, 2011

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Growing up as a product of the system as well as working in the inner city, I experienced and witnessed many things that disturbed and angered me. Things such as injustice, inequality, predatory lending, ...

On the Death of My Mother and the Nature of Love

Andrew Himes

November 8, 2011

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On Tuesday afternoon, October 4, 2011, my sister Faith called from Chattanooga and said, “Mom’s gone.” I heard a rushing sound in my ears and my heart thumped and I said the most profound thing I could thin...

Honky-Tonk Hymns in the God Pod

Morf Morford

November 4, 2011

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To What KIND of Sinners Was Jesus a Friend?

Margot Starbuck

November 2, 2011

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It’s no secret that Christians, of various flavors and stripes, are all over the board on how we deal with sin and Sinners. Though most of us have all sort of grudgingly agreed to “hate the sin and love the ...

Thanking God for R.E.M.

Bert Montgomery

October 23, 2011

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As soon as the news hit a few weeks back that rock band R.E.M. was retiring after over 30 years together, a call went out to writers to compose tributes to favorite R.E.M. songs. I can't say I've been a fan of...

Living Into a New Story

Christian Piatt

October 13, 2011

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My wife, Amy, and I just got back from a quick trip to Las Vegas for my 40th birthday. I jumped off a 109-story building, we did the zip line down Freemont Street, watched a couple of shows, ate too much f...