If you combine all the people who like going to the movies and those who regularly attend church, you get a bunch of people.  For that bunch of people, this podcast is for you.  We are joined by Ryan Parker of Pop Theology.  He is currently working on his PhD in Religion and the [...]

 

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O God, we thank you for this earth, our home;
For the wide sky and the blessed sun,
For the salt sea and the running water,
For the everlasting hills
And the never-resting winds,
For trees and the common grass underfoot.
We thank you for our senses
By which we hear the songs of birds,
And see the splendor of the summer fields,
And [...]

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This is prophetic in many ways. The problem is “too much consumption and borrowing” and not enough “production and saving.” We actually have a “disease” and the cure is we “stop consuming.” I am going to avoid a diatribe about Theo-Capitalism and just suggest that we try to avoid the disease this [...]

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Yes, that is Chad Crawford. Find out more here at the Regeneration Project.

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Love and Hope are two of the themes of Advent and in this song a connection is drawn between the definitive arrival of God’s Love and Hope in Christ and the invitation for us to participate in their coming.  No better place is that made visible than the communion table.  There all may come, no [...]

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I have been spending the last month looking through a number of Advent books and listening to different music albums trying to find things for my own use. I decided I would share the results because, well maybe some of you would enjoy some good advent reads and such, that isn’t full of Christmas [...]

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I am not sure this is what Phyllis Trible was thinking when she wrote ‘Texts of Terror,’ but then again if this musical takes off maybe they can get her to hep work on the sequel.

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HT: Keel

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Family Update From Alecia

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I have been working on a number of things for advent and one of them is arranging and writing some advent songs that could be used in contemporary worship gatherings or with student groups and such.  The first is a wonderful song called, “View the Present through the Promise” which I found the lyrics to [...]

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