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Tag Archives: sin

Yes. You are screwing up your kids.

September 12, 2016by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes 1 Comment

It’s an unavoidable fact of parenting. Whether you are an attachment parent, co-sleeping parent, a free-range parent, a helicopter parent, a traditional parent, a non-ideological parent, you are doing something […]

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On Anything and Everything

Hell and God’s Goodness

May 27, 2016by René Breuel 3 Comments

A horrific crime took place this past weekend: reportedly 33 men doped and raped a sixteen-years old girl in Brazil. It’s hard to imagine something more cruel and disgusting than […]

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Why did God allow that?

January 11, 2016by René Breuel 1 Comment

Why did God allow this evil act? I don’t know. But if God suffers with us to forge a perfect paradise out of this mess, offering his life to save undeserving people, I guess it is ok not to know.

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Tough Questions

A Place to Fall Apart

October 15, 2015by ryanpaulvallee Leave a comment

When country music legend Merle Haggard composed “A Place to Fall Apart” it was an instant hit. As the story goes, while struggling through a marriage breakup Merle wrote a […]

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Spirituality for the Rest of Us

From Sin and Conversion to Addiction and Recovery

September 17, 2015by Paul McClure Leave a comment

Every week hundreds of thousands of people around the world get together in small groups where they seek help, guidance, and mutual support in dealing with a vast variety of […]

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Spirituality for the Rest of Us

“Love your neighbour as your neighbour loves you”

June 15, 2015by René Breuel 4 Comments

“Love your neighbour as your neighbour loves you.”[1] Freud paraphrases Jesus’ famous words with his own, rather peppery, twist. Jesus taught that my love for others should be as boundless as my love […]

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The Heart of Faith

The End of Narrative

May 7, 2015by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes 7 Comments

I have often wanted to ask my theologian-friends if narratives can exist apart from sin. I use the word sin because of its suggestion of brokenness, of problems, of doubt, […]

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Spirituality for the Rest of Us

Colorful like the Circus

December 1, 2014by René Breuel 4 Comments

Like other painters of his generation, Marc Chagall loved the circus. The delight he experienced seeing  clowns and acrobats as a little boy – the unexpected laughs, the beat of […]

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Spirituality for the Rest of Us

Poverty, Oppression and Freedom

March 17, 2014by Dave Benson 2 Comments

“The people shall share the nation’s wealth.”  Really? This optimistic slogan—painted post-apartheid—spanned a 20 metre bridge I recently crossed on the outskirts of Cape Town. Pastor Phumezo picks me up in […]

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The Heart of Faith

The End of Virtue

July 8, 2013by René Breuel Leave a comment

Why are we often suspicious of virtue? Why are we cynical and skeptical of people who are supposedly good, kind, even heroic? That’s just the image they project–we reason–but behind […]

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