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Religion: A Private Affair
So it is that in most Western industrialized countries church and society have lost their identity, religion has become more and more a private affair, and morality has become secular. This process af... -
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The Advantage of the City
The advantage that cities and traditional neighborhoods have over sprawling suburbs with respect to interdependence is that they allow people of a greater variety of ages to participate meaningfully i... -
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Institutional Racism: The Byproduct of Historical Racism
The ways that social structures and institutions systematically work against the interest of people of color is called institutional racism. Institutional racism and historic racism are not unrelated ... -
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The Separation of Church and State in America: What Did Their Separation Entail?
The wall Jefferson referred to is designed to divide church from state, not religion from politics. Church and state are specific things: the former signifies institutions for believers to congregate ... -
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Has Religion been a Force for Evil in Human History
A major stumbling block for many earnest seekers is the compelling evidence throughout history that terrible things have been done in the name of religion. This applies to virtually all faiths at some... -
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Culture is Like Gravity
Culture is like gravity. We never talk about it, except in physics classes. We don’t include gravity in our weekly planning processes. No one gets up thinking about how gravity will affect their day. ... -
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I am Done with Great Things
In one of his letters, the philosopher and psychologist William James shares a conviction regarding his focus not on big, grand things, but with the small “almost invisible” decisions: I am done wit... -
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The Farmer’s Market and Increasing Optimism in Politics
Daniel Kemmis provides a political model for seeing redemptive possibilities in our cities. Kemmis, a former mayor of Missoula, has noted an increasing cynicism about political life in this country. T... -
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When the Humble and Powerless become our Teachers
Henri Nouwen is a well-loved writer and theologian who taught for decades at some of the most prestigious institutions in the country, but he left behind the academy to serve among the disabled popula... -
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Questions and Answers for the Second-Half of Life
In his book, Falling Upward, Franciscan priest Richard Rohr describes the need for helpful discussion and direction on the themes that arise in the second-half of life, which, as he notes, presents a ... -
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Christians in Politics: Often Our Own Worst Enemies
Though American Christians do have genuine opponents in the public square and in elite institutions, they have often been their own worst enemies, making disastrous political compromises and looking t... -
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The Birth (or Re-Emergence) of Evangelical Social Action
In 1947, budding theologian Carl F. H. Henry wrote a short book titled The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism. In it he surveys the American fundamentalist movement’s engagement with the most ... -
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Reading Scripture as a Black Man
As a black man, I pause when I see that Jesus was taken to Africa as a baby for refuge (Matthew 2:13–18). My blackness will not allow me to gloss over the Ethiopian man whom Philip cozies up to in Act... -
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Isn’t This Amazing?
In 1997, Reeve Lindbergh, daughter of aviator Charles Lindbergh, was invited to give the annual Lindbergh Address at the Smithsonian Institution’s Air and Space Museum to commemorate the 70th annivers... -
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Parenting is Part of My Work
There have been times in my life when I’ve wondered if I have failed to accomplish what God intended for me in my professional life. I have worried that I have not lived up to my potential. I judge my... -
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The Most Radical Discipline
Solitude is the most radical of the disciplines for life in the spirit. In penal institutions, solitary confinement is used to break the strongest of wills. It is capable of this because it excludes i... -
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The Primary Problem of Marriage
Destructive to marriage is the self-fulfillment ethic that assumes marriage and the family are primarily institutions of personal fulfillment, necessary for us to become “whole” and happy. The assumpt... -
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The Threat of Mediocrity
While written over 30 years ago, Anthony “Tony” Campolo shares a valid concern related to the Christian pursuit of success. And while most of us would consider “Christendom” dead in the West, the anal... -
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A Roman’s View of the Jewish Faith and Its Interaction with Egypt
In this excerpt by the Roman historian Tacitus, we get insight into the Jewish faith from an ancient, extra-Biblical account. We also see how the Israelites took the first commandment seriously: The... -
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Hospitality & Hospitals
Have you ever noticed the similarity between the words “hospitality” and “hospital?” That’s because both developed out of the need for accommodations during the medieval period, specifically when peop... -
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Hope is What is Needed
Many people are broken and without hope. It’s not surprising that a Brooking’s report in October 2019 noted how “deaths of despair” were affecting many sectors of society, particularly in America’s he... -
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The Effects of Light Deprivation
Psychologists tell us that one of the most difficult conditions a person can be forced to bear is light deprivation. Darkness, in fact, is often used in military captivity or penal institutions to bre... -
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Bourdieu’s Habitus
The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu put it this way. Each of us has what he called a habitus: a set of dispositions to respond more or less spontaneously to the world in particular ways, without mu... -
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Good vs. Bad Discipline
While formally or structurally speaking, there are mechanisms of discipline operative in both the convent and the prison, in both the factory and the monastery, more specifically, these disciplines an... -
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Institutional Inertia
Churches, seminaries, and nonprofit organizations are notorious for saying they need change and then resisting the very leader they called to bring it. One of my consulting clients told me that he cal... -
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People are the Key to Organizational Change
Here is the uncomfortable truth: Humans run to a much slower evolutionary clock than our inventions. To use an engineering term, we are the “gating factor” that keeps a process from running faster. It... -
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People do Religious Things
Some of us are interested in religious studies because we are interested in people. People do religious things; they symbolize and ritualize their lives and desire to be in a community. What piqued my... -
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Defining Religion: Creed, Cult, Conduct
In this fictionalized pastoral counseling session, the Episcopalian Priest Robert Farrar Capon shares some eternal truths related to the nature of religion—and in conclusion, how Christianity differs.... -
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Systems Can’t Fix Us
T. S. Eliot once described the current human endeavor as that of finding a system of order so perfect that we will not have to be good. The way of Jesus tells us, by contrast, that any number of syste... -
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The Sacramental “Act”
“Act” is a good word. Baptism and Communion are like mini-dramas. And we are not just in the audience; we are part of the cast. We do not look on from afar, merely learning information. We participate...
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Search by Reference
Genesis
- Gen 1 (109)
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Exodus
- Exod 1 (8)
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Leviticus
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Nehemiah
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Psalm
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Proverbs
- Prov 1 (7)
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- Prov 19 (28)
- Prov 20 (9)
- Prov 21 (13)
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- Prov 23 (4)
- Prov 24 (9)
- Prov 25 (13)
- Prov 26 (10)
- Prov 27 (30)
- Prov 28 (12)
- Prov 29 (11)
- Prov 30 (5)
- Prov 31 (31)
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
- Isa 1 (40)
- Isa 2 (7)
- Isa 5 (6)
- Isa 6 (38)
- Isa 7 (10)
- Isa 9 (35)
- Isa 11 (8)
- Isa 12 (2)
- Isa 14 (4)
- Isa 21 (1)
- Isa 25 (8)
- Isa 26 (19)
- Isa 28 (7)
- Isa 29 (6)
- Isa 30 (44)
- Isa 32 (3)
- Isa 33 (4)
- Isa 35 (5)
- Isa 37 (1)
- Isa 40 (92)
- Isa 41 (39)
- Isa 42 (20)
- Isa 43 (53)
- Isa 44 (6)
- Isa 45 (14)
- Isa 46 (5)
- Isa 47 (2)
- Isa 48 (9)
- Isa 49 (16)
- Isa 50 (4)
- Isa 51 (2)
- Isa 52 (3)
- Isa 53 (72)
- Isa 54 (6)
- Isa 55 (90)
- Isa 56 (4)
- Isa 57 (8)
- Isa 58 (47)
- Isa 59 (7)
- Isa 60 (10)
- Isa 61 (31)
- Isa 62 (1)
- Isa 64 (17)
- Isa 65 (11)
- Isa 66 (5)
- Isa 85 (1)
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Ezekiel
Daniel
Joel
Obadiah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Malachi
Matthew
- Matt 1 (21)
- Matt 2 (35)
- Matt 3 (11)
- Matt 4 (54)
- Matt 5 (172)
- Matt 6 (180)
- Matt 7 (84)
- Matt 8 (12)
- Matt 9 (19)
- Matt 10 (34)
- Matt 11 (55)
- Matt 12 (21)
- Matt 13 (38)
- Matt 14 (26)
- Matt 15 (11)
- Matt 16 (42)
- Matt 17 (8)
- Matt 18 (68)
- Matt 19 (21)
- Matt 20 (17)
- Matt 21 (21)
- Matt 22 (30)
- Matt 23 (54)
- Matt 24 (20)
- Matt 25 (95)
- Matt 26 (22)
- Matt 27 (12)
- Matt 28 (39)




