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The story behind the old Christian Universalist hymn

Love is the Doctrine of this Church,
The quest of truth is its Sacrament,
And service is its Prayer

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If the Spirit is still speaking. how? (Guest Essay).

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The marriage of Christian fundamentalism and market fundamentalism (Guest Essay).

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An Unorthodox Christ Figure in “The Hustler”

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Christ and “The Powers” in Cool Hand Luke

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Redemption from Fear

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Went to First Watch for one of my favorite brunch meals and ended up...

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Death came more quickly than all expected. Unfamiliar eyes turn to me, a stranger...

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Does science expect us to give up God?

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"On a side street, not always on the same side street, is a little store front...."

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I also need to stipulate that the straw-man-ness of the Christianity promulgated by these fundamentalists and conservative white American Evangelicals does not

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Lisa went looking for God in church. Written in response to my "I went looking for God."

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