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Death’s vision

As my father was dying, I saw God’s radiant face more clearly.

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The unexpected gift of missional friendship

I was a United Methodist pastor. He was a campus minister with Cru.

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The mass shooting in Buffalo was an attack on the image of God

And it was enabled by social structures of permission.

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The most important American Old Testament scholar of the last century is Norman Gottwald

In the life of early Israel, Gottwald found a God of economic justice.

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Under Elon Musk’s authority

Doing church on social media is not like standing in the public square. It’s more like putting ourselves under a form of sovereignty.

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