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Why Iโ€™m Not Tempted to Apostate

A glass dessert cup sits on a square of burlap and is filled with vanilla and chocolate pudding and topped with blueberries and raspberries.

I hope this title is appreciated and that the article is appreciated at least half as much as the title. I enjoy approaching serious subjects with a casual, Kermit the Frog tea sip before I …

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What’s in a Term: What is a Christian?

What is a Christian

โ€œWhat is a Christian?โ€  I feel that I could have confidently answered this question just a few years ago with an orthodox list that outlined the historical Christian faith. I would have adequately provided Scriptural …

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A God Big Enough for Bacteria

Painting of Atlas holding up the celestial globe

The railway forest is changing with the seasons. I recently took a walk through it, now that the bugs have died down enough that I probably wonโ€™t get West Nile Virus. Most of the forest …

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Eastern Christianity: A Journey

Eastern Christianity

The following is a talk that my departed grandmother invited me to give for her Sunday School class at First United Methodist Shreveport which, due to some confusion, was given in its entirety to the …

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Thoughts on Our Shared Humanity

A bronze outdoor sculpture of a begging woman with her hand extended while wrapped in a blanket.

Back in the 1990s, the federal government realized that there were dorms and beds for a minimum security prison in one of the most curious of places: the countryโ€™s last hospital for persons who had …

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Polygamy and the Protestant Reformers

Rusted locks on a gate

The Latin terms sola gratia, sola fides, sola scriptura, solus Christus, and soli Deo gloria describe concepts that stood at the center of Protestant theological and polemical writings in the early sixteenth century.  Scripture alone, …

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