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USING THE "S-WORD" IN CHURCH
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by Alan B. Ward
Go to church for very long, and you are bound to hear someone utter the 's-word' in church. By that I mean stewardship. We often cringe when the conversation of increasing our giving comes up, especially in challenging economic times. Jesus challenges us to break away from the consumer-driven mentality that so permeates our culture and to embrace the 'God-reality' that he describes in the Sermon on the Mount. As we do this we find that our perspective on giving (and on life in general) changes. We put God's portion aside first, regardless of the economy or other life circumstances. ...more
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BARACK OBAMA AND THE MONOMYTH
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by Christopher Cocca
Humankind has always needed metanarratives. For premodern peoples, shared mythology reflected the socioexistential needs of purpose and belonging and common founding stories. Such need was not overcome by the moderns, and even though their metanarrative replaced myth with Science, the difference is semantic. The postmodern metanarrative is a return to story-based, anthropomorphic meaning-making, and the pantheon of our myth system is filled with living, breathing gods we see in hi-def color. They are actors and talk show hosts and athletes and politicians and their stories are followed and retold for generations. A typical breakdown of Western history has the Gutenbergs destroying oral tradition, but anyone who’s ever listened to sports radio knows received mythology is alive and well. And in the information age, we don’t simply recount the exploits of our heros, we comment and opine ad nauseam about them. I’d like to consider the recent election in this context and, like any good citizen of of the era, contribute to the myth-making as has become the right of the mythologized-to. ...more
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WOMEN AS PASTORS, ELDERS, DEACONS & OVERSEERS
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by Keith Giles
How would you respond to someone who devotes their life to building up the Body, yet happens to be female? Would you call that person a pastor?
This is a question, and a subject, worthy of great discussion and debate within Christian circles today. ...more
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HOPE
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by J Stewart
Why do we care so much about politics? Have we gotten side tracked in the grand scheme of things? More than ever we need to band together. We need to trust in God and leave our fear behind. We have a hope greater than government or a man can provide. ...more
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