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Arts & Essays: Spirituality & Faith

Written By: Barry Casey

August 11, 2020

John Lewis, Hope, and Anger
Does anger cancel hope or can hope and anger live together?
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Written By: Corey Farr

August 10, 2020

A Christian Reads the Tao te Ching:...
For me, the Tao te Ching is a conversation partner. It stokes the fires of my imagination and shines light on new ways of thinking that help me...
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Written By: Corey Farr

August 03, 2020

A Christian Reads the Tao te Ching:...
In chapter 39, we are introduced to a topic we haven't seen up until this point: ecology. According to the Tao te Ching, all things on earth...
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Written By: Barry Casey

July 28, 2020

The Intolerable Halfness of Being
If there has been one constant throughout my life, it has been the need to understand who God thinks I am. That sounds trite and cliched, but there...
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Written By: Corey Farr

July 28, 2020

A Christian Reads the Tao te Ching:...
This week, we’re going to expand on what Lao Tzu calls “low virtue.” One of the core themes of this chapter is the repeating contrasts Lao Tzu uses...
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Written By: Corey Farr

July 20, 2020

A Christian Reads the Tao te Ching:...
The thing about fruit is that it just grows all on its own from a healthy plant. Paul doesn’t say, “Those who walk in the Spirit have to do these...
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Written By: Barry Casey

July 14, 2020

My Fallen House
What to do after the house is swept clean of our devils and we breathe, for a little while, the freshness of newly planted fields? What to do after...
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Written By: Corey Farr

July 13, 2020

A Christian Reads the Tao te Ching:...
Rather than just a circle or a pendulum, I like to think of history (and my own spiritual growth) as a spiral.
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Written By: Reinder Bruinsma

July 10, 2020

The Future of Open Theism: From...
I find the God of Open Theism who emerges from this book a much more attractive God than the God of most versions of Protestant Christianity that I...
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Written By: Corey Farr

July 07, 2020

A Christian Reads the Tao te Ching:...
It is this journey of paradox that brings us life, putting us back in touch with the deepest parts of human spirituality, because that is how we are...
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