When the Powers Take Over Israel’s Experience Exodus 32:1-14 The dateline on an article in the Los Angeles Times reads “February 1, 2024, Las Flores, Mexico.” It starts out like this: Franz Kauenhofen was once a pious member of his Mennonite community in this tropical stretch of southern Mexico. He read the Bible, tended to […]
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Inclusion of people with disabilities. I have been reflecting on how my own journey with people with disabilities coincides with the movement to include persons with disabilities at the center of Christian congregations. My journey began when I realized I was a father of a child with developmental and intellectual disabilities. It continued as a
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Jesus’s compassion goes beyond a vague universal love for humanity to the persons right in front of him on the way of the cross.
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Human beings are said to be created in the image of God. What does that mean? We can examine the context around this Biblical proclamation in Genesis 1:26–28.
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Many of us have an ambivalent relationship with law. Just mentioning the word “law” brings up many different images in our minds. For most of us, the law means a set of fixed rules and regulations that we are supposed to live by. We operate by law at many different levels. Most of us in
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Jesus will come again in the same way that he ascended to his heavenly throne, in the same way in which he lived his earthly life.
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The language we use affects the understandings we hold. I have recently been thinking about a prime example, the language of “king” and “kingdom” especially as used in the phrases “kingdom of God” and “kingdom of heaven.”
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“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. A look at two key terms: (1) peacemakers, and (2) sons (children) of God.
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The concept of race leads to the power of racism used by a predominantly white society to control non-white people.
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The powers ordered by God in Christ become rebellious.
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