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Like the rest of the country, I’m reeling from news of the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon and the follow-up spree of violence and subsequent manhunt. I keep flashing back to September 11, 2001, when I like most Americans sat glued to the television trying to absorb news that was unabsorbable. Now, almost twelve … Read more
Someone sent me this delightful video just as I was reading a book that explores the word redeem. Slum children creating music out of garbage stands as a perfect metaphor for a word usually encountered in theology texts. Some twenty years ago Jerry Sittser, a religion professor at Whitworth College, was involved in a horrific … Read more
Those of us who live in snow lands love to complain about the weather. We tell stories about spending the night in a church basement when the highway shut down, and the time it got so cold that spit froze before it hit the ground. Local newscasters demonstrate how it’s actually possible to hammer a … Read more
In January I went to Kazakhstan. It’s a big country–ninth largest in the world and five times the size of Texas–yet virtually unknown until the 2006 spoof film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan by Sasha Baron Cohen. Though the British comedian Cohen has no connection with the central … Read more
In recent years audiences worldwide have watched a drama of forgiveness played out onstage in the musical version of Les Misérables. Now a major motion picture makes the story available to all. I used the plot as an illustration in my book What’s So Amazing About Grace? Often I’m asked, “Can a person be forgiven … Read more
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