Fig Tree Blues
When we are young, the future takes the shape of our formless hopes. When we are older our hopes take the shape of our expectations.Read More
Arts & Essays: Spirituality & Faith
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Written By: Barry CaseyNovember 17, 2020In Praise of Useless Beauty
Mission, rightly done, awakens others to joy. The seeing of Beauty is our re-cognition, our thinking-again, of our work in the world. Beauty...
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Written By: Alita ByrdNovember 13, 2020New Bible Study Guide Launched for...
Marcos Torres, who pastors in Western Australia, has created "The Road" to tell the story of Jesus in a way that appeals to secular young people who...
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Written By: Kim Allan JohnsonNovember 06, 2020The Thomas We Never Knew
Labeling Thomas as "doubting" is a sad substitute for understanding. If we take time to know him more fully, a dramatically different, more complete...
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Written By: Barry CaseyNovember 03, 2020Disregarding the Rest
What I find so poignant about this situation is that it really matters to both of us. Neither of us can easily walk away because we care about the...
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Written By: Corey FarrNovember 02, 2020A Christian Reads the Tao te Ching:...
We have to reclaim the importance of internal wisdom, or being willing to do the hard work of reflection and self-examination internally rather than...
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Written By: Barry CaseyOctober 20, 2020Speaker for the Dead
The Psalms, like the prophets, are a fever reading of the body of believers. They scorch, they curl up at the edges, they blister my doily-shaped...
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Written By: Dennis HollingseadOctober 16, 2020The Sabbath — Another Look
During the last several months, I have been contemplating the meaning of the Sabbath in relationship to the cross and the resurrection.
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Written By: Barry CaseyOctober 06, 2020Neo-Revisionist Christian Pessimism
Hope is so much a part of the Christian ethos that it’s almost heresy to admit a certain pessimism in one’s temperament.
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Written By: Barry CaseySeptember 22, 2020The Paleness of Winter Light
Racism is never only about color. That is simply code, in the shallowness and impatience of white supremacist thinking, for dominance, color being...
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