Monthly Archives: May 2014

Getting It Right (Focus on Grace, January 2013)

Picture, if you will, a man. He is young, still somewhat idealistic, passionate and energetic. His friends, if asked to describe him with one word, would say things like, “faithful,” “devout,” and “intense,” and they would mean those things in … Continue reading

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Experiencing Church (Focus on Grace, November 2012)

Author’s Note: this article was written more than a year and a half prior to my last post, “Playing Church,” but looks at the same issue through a slightly different lens. I actually hadn’t realized I was picking up on … Continue reading

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Playing Church

When I was a teenager, I attended a church that seemed, to my youthful perceptions, to have a core group of people that never changed. Members outside this group came and went, but this core group always seemed to stay … Continue reading

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What Is Your Opinion Worth? (Focus on Grace, October 2012)

I’ve always been somewhat baffled by protests. I don’t mean the earnest, sometimes violent, types of protests, like I grew up with in the sixties, or the kinds that have been storming the Arab world this past year. Those kinds … Continue reading

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