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Treyvon, a Legal System, and the Justice To Come
Dave Miller encouraged readers at SBC Voices to avoid going Nancy Grace in the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict when giving an opinion. Greg Horton only weighed in because his answer to a question...
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New Project for Life – Remembering Ashkelon
We met the Garner’s almost three years ago. We sat in the NICU at OU Medical. Kam and Cohen both were born premature. After about four weeks you feel like family. Not everyone who waited there shares...
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Listening to the Other – A Guest Post by Dwight McKissic
It is a mistake to think white people cannot talk about race in our Country. It may also be a mistake to think that white people listen well when the issue of race enters the public sphere as it has...
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Life Begins with the Feelings of the Parent?
Indefensible logic supports many an argument. My mentor noted a few years ago his Seminary education, even is college experience, would have been better had it included a good dose of logic. I agree....
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The Oracle On the Surveillance State or, Why Was Ed Stetzer Not Crying In the...
“Repent for not saying a word!” Well, here is what Ed Stetzer really said, Either way, part of the role of Christians in any society is speaking up against wrongs committed by their government– and to...
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Mandela, Matthew, and What Is Getting Done or, Reading from a Different Location
I remember the shantytown. After a week of staying on the Golden Mile watching the tide come and go looking out across the Indian Ocean, walking the boardwalk between meetings, taking countless...
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If Only We Were Persecuted
The Duck Commander dustup inspired impassioned pleas to stand against Christian persecution. Rights became, and still are, the grounding of many arguments. But, what if the Church, and so Christians,...
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Song for the Border Crisis
Some days one can only offer the shorthand, SMH. When I hear some of the rhetoric spouted by Christians, even pastors, I wonder just what Jesus a person has been reading. I am working on a post and...
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What Is A Christian To Do About Refugees?
My grandboys call me Doc, or PaPa Doc. The nickname may have come when Nathan and I met and began working on staff together. “Hey Doc,” would begin a sentence or question. Our girls thought that would...
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When Representatives Don’t Represent or, Protect Your Children
We all suffer the personal realization that we may not represent well. Big 12 Media Days taking place in Dallas came with the the discussion of Bob Stoops and the Oklahoma Sooners taking in Dorial...
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Our Office Is Open, Your’s Should Be Too, Say “No” to Columbus Day
The NFL team from Washington D.C. continues to face the pressure to choose a different mascot. Phil Simms made a personal and public statement when he refused to refer to the Washington team by their...
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Fury at the Crossroads or, War Makes Us Machines
Did David Ayer consider that his script and movie would offer an underlying critique of the current war on Terror? Sure, it is not the first thing about which you think when Fury presents viewers with...
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Is There Nothing of Value In Monica Lewinsky’s Forbes Speech?
My Facebook Feed reveals little sympathy for Monica Lewinsky. As she predicted in her speech, her words seem most to have ignited once dead embers into rants and retorts. So, is there really nothing of...
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An Uneasy Agent of the State: Part 1, Prayer As Ceremony
Hello, my name is Todd. I am a professional pray-er. Once it is discovered I am a pastor, no matter the event, I become the de facto pray-er. Once a month I am expected to pray at our regular City...
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Neglected View
Homes fall into disrepair often out of neglect. The cost to rehab an old house may not be immediately clear. No one knows what unseen costs lie behind old sheet rock or underneath old carpet. Neglected...
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(De)Colonizing the Mind or, Entering the Fray If Only for a Moment
Should females be formed by their association with males? It is not uncommon to hear certain discussions of gender roles and relationships follow ideologically from the reference to human origins in...
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It Has Been Long Enough or, Isaiah Captures the Mood
Reading the many Facebook comments, Twitter feeds, and some articles, one wonders if we have lost our ear for the prophetic. Rooting out things as they are could characterize the words of any an Old...
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A Wickedly Good Combination – Anonymous Hacks the Church
We rarely like to be wakened from our slumber. Our preference is not to be bothered once we have acclimated to the way things are. Clearing our bleary eyes leaves us disoriented and rarely thinking...
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The Ahistorical Jesus or, How the CIA Gets a Christian Pass
Two young friends suffer church leaders/members who give allegiance to an ahistorical Jesus. I am guessing those whose Jesus takes this shape did not come to their position all by themselves. In fact,...
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Zhand, Sobrino, and Editing Isaiah
New Year’s Eve I will visit Dr. Womack. The question will be, “Have my eyes changed?” My wife tells me that the color of my eyes change. Here I am talking about the strength of my eyes. Will I need to...
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