Category: Culture
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Peak Experiences
Decades ago I read the memoir of Sir Edmund Hillary. He described an interlude in his adventuring during which he went home to New Zealand. What chased him back to adventure was waking up one morning “hungover” – not just from alcohol but from rich food and assorted “good things of life.” A friend and…
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The Great Ones
Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the…
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Two Kinds of Tombs
Yeah, Christians stew about all the same crud that upsets our neighbors. We’re human, distracted, flawed, idolatrous, deceived… But we’re also in a 50 day celebration of Jesus’ empty tomb – his victory over all of our death dealing stuff (the crud in the first paragraph above and oh so much more) and his leading…
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