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  • Unsettling Advent, Day 17

    Unsettling Advent, Day 17

    Word&Way,

    In day 17 of our Unsettling Advent devotional series, Jennifer Butler reflects on watching the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and how people again misunderstand who Jesus was and what he came to do.

  • A star is leading Russians to the manger this Christmas

    A star is leading Russians to the manger this Christmas

    The Christian Post,

    Russian Christians are even now going to orphanages, children’s homes and door-to-door on foot — braving the pandemic and temperatures 40 below zero — to share the good news of Immanuel’s Child …“God with us.” It all starts with a simple star, a star that says “God loves you.”

  • Trump knocked the door down. Let someone else walk through it

    Trump knocked the door down. Let someone else walk through it

    The Christian Post,

    Trump has set a bold, “tell it like it is” model that others can follow. But he is not the only man who can effectively lead America. And without question, it is possible to be a decisive, powerful leader without burning so many bridges, burying so many relationships and alienating so many people along the way.

  • It’s Advent… Ready or Not!

    It’s Advent… Ready or Not!

    Word&Way,

    Anita Peebles notes that we all might never truly be ready for Advent, no matter what year it is. But she argues that we need a reminder every year that time, like life, like matter, like energy, is a cycle—that human systems of domination can be subverted by a little baby born in an out-of-the-way place to a vulnerable teenager.

  • Social infertility and the denial of reality

    Social infertility and the denial of reality

    The Christian Post,

    Clearly, same-sex love — even when committed, sincere and monogamous — isn’t the same as heterosexual love in terms of what intercourse means and its procreative potential. Therefore, new words need to be invented, and others redefined.

  • Dying to look good

    Dying to look good

    The Christian Post,

    Several years ago, a Christian bodybuilder friend of mine who was around my age suddenly died. I could tell by looking at him that he was on some sort of gear and learned shortly thereafter that the cause of his death was heart-related.