Category: Christianity in America
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Capitalism? Socialism? Communism?
My husband and I just went to an excellent play at the Guthrie called, “The Lehman Trilogy.” It is about the Lehman brothers who came to the United States as immigrants from Poland in the early 20th century. They came with nothing and started a little fabric store in Alabama, working hard just like most…
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Bible Defies Human Description
The past several Sundays our pastors have tried to teach us what the Bible is and where it gets its authority. And basically, I have come away with the understanding that, as humans, it is not possible to do that beyond stating the obvious – God wrote it through people and we are to obey…
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Life was not created for death
On my way to work out this morning I started thinking about how there just seems to be no truly environmentally friendly way to deal with a deceased person. Why was I thinking about that?!?! Someone on the radio was talking about the importance of justice and that we need to be about justice, personally,…
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Lots of Opposites
I had never really paid attention to the fact that the Holy Spirit in Christianity is also referred to by very opposite-seeming symbols in the Bible. Jesus, of course, is famously referred to as both a lion and a lamb. God, the Father, is referred to as a mother hen who wants to gather her…
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You want me to make what?
A day or so ago I was watching a video on how to make a fun-looking greeting card from one of the talented women that I purchase card-making products from. Inspired, I pulled out some paper and began cutting, scoring, folding and gluing. Then it came to stamping. I pulled out the ink that would…