Category Archives: religion

Questions Without Answers

Good evening, Beloved Readers. Ever had a question that nagged at you? A question that demanded an answer, and like now? Yet in all your searching, you find there’s no answer? Welcome to tonight’s post. Tonight, I’m talking about questions … Continue reading

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In Search of Communion

He said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer Luke 22:15 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition) Today is Maundy Thursday, the day we commemorate the Last Supper (as well as Jesus’s … Continue reading

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Life Is… (Lent 2024 Version)

Life is bittersweet, and bittersweetness is greatly to be preferred to pure sweetness. In the classic iconography of Heaven, everyone is 33 years old, everyone looks the same, and everything is oddly dead, like plastic flower on a grave. In … Continue reading

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No Easy Road (Lent 2024 Version)

I don’t feel no ways tiredI’ve come too far from where I started fromNobody told me that the road would be easyI don’t believe He brought me this far to leave me From “I Don’t Feel Noways Tired” by Rev. … Continue reading

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Steal Away

Steal away, steal away, steal away to Jesus! Steal away, steal away home, I ain’t got long to stay here. 1 My Lord, He calls me, He calls me by the thunder; The trumpet sounds within my soul; I ain’t … Continue reading

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Is There Still a Balm in Gilead?

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored? Jeremiah 8:22 (NRSVUE) We are sick! Yes, I said it. We are sick! When Evangelicals … Continue reading

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Killing The Messenger

For this reason I send you prophets, sages, and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town, so that upon you may come all the … Continue reading

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“Christ” In Christmas?

Scripture reference: Luke 2:1-20 (The Birth of Jesus, and the Shepherds and the Angels) Today is the Fourth Sunday of Advent; and tonight is Christmas Eve. I recently read a Facebook post about how churches have elaborate Christmas pageants-spending oodles … Continue reading

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Restoration at Advent

Then the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken. Isaiah 40:5 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition) Welcome to the Second Sunday of Advent! As I … Continue reading

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The Wind of Many Colors

you cannot see my face, for no one shall see me and live. Exodus 33:20 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Version) Good morning, Beloved Readers! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. My family and I were at our cousin’s … Continue reading

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