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Diana Butler Bass
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Years ago, a minister told me a story of a funeral:The widow sat in the front row, crying, surrounded by wailing friends. At the point in the liturgy for the
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I know people are acting shocked by the 1776 commission report. But it reads like a Christian homeschooling textbook. Nothing new - same stuff that’s been taught for decades in
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Listening to the news about how the id'ed military in Wed's insurrection are mostly Air Force. And remembering this story from 15 years ago re: evangelical radicalization at the Air
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I was on the phone (yeah, real phone call) with a friend today. We were talking about the pandemic, both moaning that we didn't know what day it is.I laughed.
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In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus literally said "Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors" (debts=Aramaic "choba").William Tyndale purposefully translated it as "trespasses" because he feared English read
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White evangelicals are 15% of the population but made up (roughly) 25% of the electorate on Tuesday. (NEP says 27%; AP 22%) Despite their declining numbers, they still exercise outsize
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This is one of the vows you take on baptism in my church, something I take seriously - and try to live (even on Twitter). I do not live up
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Not to worry anyone, but Trump's religious advisors are mostly faith healer-type evangelicals and Pentecostals.This means a few things: 1) They believe that illness is primarily a result of spiritual
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I often think of the statue of Mary Dyer outside the Massachusetts state house in Boston. Of course, it is a public statue of a important American woman who witnessed
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