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Arts & Essays: Spirituality & Faith

Written By: Kim Allan Johnson

November 06, 2020

The 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 Casey

November 03, 2020

Disregarding 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 Farr

November 02, 2020

A 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 Casey

October 20, 2020

Speaker 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 Hollingsead

October 16, 2020

The 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 Casey

October 06, 2020

Neo-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 Casey

September 22, 2020

The 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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Written By: Corey Farr

September 21, 2020

A Christian Reads the Tao te Ching:...
Today we’re going to be exploring chapter 46, which takes up the theme of contentment and discontentment from the last two chapters but frames it in...
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Written By: Barry Casey

September 09, 2020

Become All Things
The liminal person—on the threshold—speaks to the individual and the community, in fact, becomes a conduit between the two. Through the poet/writer,...
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Written By: Corey Farr

September 08, 2020

A Christian Reads the Tao Te Ching:...
Chapters 44 and 45 are all about contentment. The former provides a litany of rhetorical questions that prompt us to rethink what really matters in...
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