April 2009

Guestroom for Jesus?

by Ariah Fine 28 April 2009

In most cities in the USA, especially in our current economic climate, there are more abandoned housing units then there are homeless. In other words: there is enough housing for everyone. Of course, the red tape and economic structures of our society prevents this solution from becoming a reality. However, I’d like to offer an [...]

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Remaining Spiritual

by Administrator 26 April 2009

Often in these sorts of Christian groups where we work for social justice and peace we lose our spiritual base. We don’t take the Bible so seriously and we claim that feeding the starving is a miracle just as much speaking in tongues is. We shorten our services and prayer-times to work with the poor. [...]

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Are we the people?

by Paul Munn 24 April 2009

The owner men explained the workings and the thinkings of the monster that was stronger than they were…. “You see, a bank or company… those creatures don´t breathe air, don´t eat side-meat. They breathe profits; they eat interest on money. If they don´t get it, they die the way you die without air, without side-meat. [...]

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Barack Obama Saved My Faith!

by Ted Troxell 23 April 2009

I voted for Obama. I did so for a number of reasons, some more substantive than others. I thought he would be less hawkish than McCain, and more likely to take the environment seriously — the difference between “ready to go and fired up” and “drill, baby, drill.” There’s also his ability to speak in [...]

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Who are We? & wh@t the B!*#p @re we doing?

by JoshuaDbauIII 21 April 2009

Many of us have lost the power and pathos of the early followers of Jesus, we have forgotten how to pray with our legs.

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Hope and Folly

by Sarah Lynne 20 April 2009

While I was following the discussion on Luke Muehlhauser’s From Faith to Common Sense Atheism, I became interested in the idea that he had somehow wasted his time being a Christian.  My initial reaction was to protest.  I’d always been of the opinion that being a Christian was a good “bet” (that there was ”nothing to [...]

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Does Jesus need a "movement"? Lessons from the old new monasticism

by Paul Munn 15 April 2009

“So you´re gonna be a bum?!”
That was my father´s initial reaction when I told him I was leaving on a long walking trip, hundreds of miles, without backpack or tent or sleeping bag—or money. I tried to explain that Jesus was my inspiration. Jesus´ life and the way he sent out his disciples:
“Go your way; [...]

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The Spirituality of Spamalot

by Becky Garrison 13 April 2009

When my brother and his family came to visit New York City, I assumed the role of tourist guide. After we chowed down in Chinatown, walked over the Brooklyn Bridge, shopped at St. Mark’s Place (a must see stop for scene teens), peeked at the Gay Pride Parade, strolled through Central Park, and checked out [...]

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sovereign

by Paul Munn 12 April 2009

Silence. Cool stillness. Then her whisper. “Sovereign?” “Are you there?”

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Seeing What Love Has Done

by Brandon Rhodes 10 April 2009

There’s a dozen ways of describing a winning home run at a baseball game:

Some are just about the home run: “Williams hit the ball beyond the right fielders and into the stands.”
Some are almost scientific in just stating the pitch and hit: “He struck the fast ball with the bat.”
It can be stated so as [...]

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