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Do We All Do This?
Who knows what will be happening on certain international fronts by the time this blog gets posted but of necessity I am writing this about 5 days before it will appear. So if anything seems already...
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Conflicted
Much has been written and said about the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision last week. And here's some more! I doubt I will share anything particularly unique or novel but I write this out of a...
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Only Something Nice?
Last week one day I was reviewing some of the audio sermons available in the archive of my Center for Excellence in Preaching website. One sermon I listened to was preached by my friend Tom Long at...
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Well we've slid into August now and so we're just a few blinks away from Labor Day and the semi-official end of all things summer. For those who can enjoy a different cadence of life during summertime...
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You Will Laugh
My last few posts have been on the heavy side, though the last one in particular struck a chord for lots of folks--indeed, I've never had a post on The Twelve that was subsequently mentioned as often...
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Value
My son started college last week and a couple days prior, he and I were out and about running last-minute errands to get him ready for the move to the dorm. In between stops, the news on NPR came on...
View ArticleGracious Residue
This blog post will appear on a Tuesday but I am writing it on a Monday morning and so am in a post-Sunday reflective mood when it comes to preaching. I heard a good sermon yesterday morning and was...
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Metaphorically Speaking
This year I was privileged to be invited to join an interdisciplinary group of scholars. Together we will study the intersections of economics and metaphor and how using certain metaphors may help not...
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Excusing Anger
Serena Williams had a reason, a rationale, an excuse. She missed a shot in a tennis match last week--a match she went on to win--and promptly threw a hissy fit that resulted in the complete mangling...
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Remembrance
Depending on where you are, it is Veterans Day or Remembrance Day on this 11th of November. It's the 96th anniversary, too, of the end of World War I, "the war to end all wars" except that it turned...
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