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The Corona Virus. Frozen 2. And Christian Sensationalism. Welcome to the new/old normal! Right before the ban, producer Zach Leetch and I snuck into the church to make one last

Continue readingThe Cloud of Unknowing: Clarity in the Age of Corona

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When life gets heavy, get Coastline Charlie.

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STAY PUT. Those two words mean something very different to all of us today than they did even three weeks ago. And while I can’t claim any particular prescience here,

Continue readingStability in an Age of Flux: Spiritual Formation Among the Living and the Dead (w/ Rev. Hayden Butler)

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Love Island. The Bachelor. The Bachelorette. Are You the One? Temptation Island. Love Connection. Blind Date. The Dating Game. Beauty and the Geek. Next. Love is Blind… In a culture

Continue readingLife Together: Being Single in the Christian Church (w/ Pastor Aaron Gomez)

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You do you.  Follow your desire.  Seek your own perfection.  Reality is something each of us constructs for ourselves by exerting our will and manifesting our desire.  Or so we’re

Continue readingThe Neverending Story: A Modern Fairy Tale of Nihilism and Love

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What are fairy tales and why do they matter? This is the question J.R.R. Tolkien took up in a lecture he gave at the University of St. Andrews on March

Continue readingI Desire Dragons: Exploring J.R.R Tolkien’s “On Fairy-Stories”

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When, as a child, were you overwhelmed by reality? What most decisively shaped your imagination as you grew up? Who were the teachers in your life whose love of their

Continue readingFurther Up and Further In: The Endless Education of the Soul through the Imagination (w/ Rev. Hayden Butler)

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In his book on Christian community, Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”  If you haven’t listened

Continue readingThe Face of God: On Motherhood, Suffering, and the Call of Christ to Love Every Child (w/ Angela Ward)

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It is so easy to be misled.  It is so easy to get caught up in someone’s agenda or to mistake the power of this world for the power of

Continue readingDon’t Be Misled: Witnessing to Jesus at the End of Time

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The End is Near! Don’t Be Left Behind! Prophecy. Anti-Christ. Israel. The Temple in Jerusalem. Wars and Rumors of Wars. The End Times has become a feverish industry of speculation,

Continue readingGuaranteed Pure: A Biblical Framework for the End of Time