From the CCblogs Network Posts for February, 2011

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I'm worried

Feb 24, 2011 by Steve Pankey

It is 3:13 on Thursday afternoon and I still have eight sermons bouncing around in my skull. I'm not so much worried about tomorrow, I'm certain this Friday will have enough worries of its own. I'm not even worried about Saturday evening's five15 because the conversation format means I don't have to have one direction nailed down when the service starts.

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Musing about the space between

Feb 24, 2011 by Tripp Hudgins

There is a region between home and the forbidden, states a friend and colleague of mine. It's not a border in the NRSV, but a region, an actual space that Jesus goes to. It's where the unwanted are.

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Not my people

Feb 23, 2011 by James Sledge

"May I continue to find favor in your sight, my lord, for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your servant, even though I am not one of your servants."  If you knew that these words were from the Bible, but did not know the context, what would you suppose they meant?  In the Old Testament, Israel is often s

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Does God love of necessity?

Feb 21, 2011 by Robert Cornwall

When we say, with the author of 1 John, that "God is Love," what do we mean by this? According to this text, if taken quite literally, it is not simply that God loves whom God chooses to love, but God's essence is love.

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Lusting for the apocalypse, really?

Feb 17, 2011 by Ed Sunday-Winters

To be honest, his letter to the editor startled me.

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The social network

Feb 15, 2011 by Dennis Sanders

Via Scott McKnight, I came upon this blog post by Richard Beck about how Facebook is killing the church. Yes, you heard me: Facebook is killing the church.

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"It didn't turn out right"

Feb 11, 2011 by Diane Roth

That's what she said when I walked into her room at the nursing home.

I was there to help plan a funeral on Saturday, for her daughter.  Her brothers were also with us.

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Borrowed faith

Feb 08, 2011 by Debra Dean Murphy

Woven deeply into the fabric of Protestant Christianity is the idea that faith is something you must own or possess if it is to be real.

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Legitimate ignorance vs. willful deception in biblical language

Feb 07, 2011 by James F. McGrath

A recent comment suggested that language in the Bible such as storehouses of snow, the dome over the earth, the earth's immovable character, and so on, might all be metaphorical. After all, we use such language metaphorically today.

But our use of it is a hangover from a bygone era when that language was presumed to be literal.

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Arlo Duba’s forsaking of smugness

Feb 04, 2011 by Janet Edwards

I hope that the courageous statement on LGBT equality in the church by Rev. Dr. Arlo Duba in the January 24, 2011 issue of The Presbyterian Outlook is widely read and pondered upon. It has certainly provoked much reflection on my part.