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Holy-ness: set apart
What is holiness, really? Is being holy just a stodgy idea for people who never realized that “we aren’t in the 1500’s anymore, Dorothy?” Or is it actually something truly magnificent and beautiful – and glorious? In response, God has already said, and he is all of those things; magnificent and beautiful AND Glorious –…
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Paleo, Protestant, Thoughts
(Podcast notes, etc). Warning: rambling ahead. Today I listened to a podcast episode from the Paleo Protestant Pudcast hosted by a Presbyterian, Lutheran, and..Anglican) (google). The cast helped me to understand what I have read from Tim Challies about what he calls “recent report of a quiet revival” (Challies, Pudcast). The Pudcast (I am not sure…
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Christians and Masculinity: Beginning at the Beginning
I recently came across the term “masculine Christianity” (youtube video).* Equivocation COULD happen – as in, ‘quit yourselves like men; be strong’ means ‘go drink beer and grow a beard; because that is what men do’ (kjv, esv). But since Jesus was masculine, even though it’s not clear from Scripture whether he had a beard…
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A Gift and the Magi
Emily Winslow Cox ENGL 203 Regent University Professor N. Geske Eliot’s Magi: Beginnings and Endings Eliot’s “Magi” poem is one which expresses the perspective of a traveler looking back on a unique journey – a journey he would remember for the rest of his life. It was a journey to a birth, a birth through…
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Hay, Joy, and Hope
Here is something I wrote for school. Thanks to all the people who helped with this and whose content I referenced. I have recently journeyed through week 7, Southern Literature, in my ENGL 203 literature class.* I thought about hay in the context of O’Connor’s Work. As someone who called herself Roman Catholic, it is…
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Stop and Look At Jesus: Thoughts after a Walk
While I was taking a walk this morning, I observed the things around me declaring God’s glory. The pine needles on the trees, the summer plants, the very green foliage. I wanted to stop and encounter the nature around me. I also thought of the common saying, “Stop and Smell the Roses” (Zverkova). God has…
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Forgetting What Lies Behind – Biological Sex and the Cross
by Emily Winslow Cox I saw a post this morning by someone on social media who was noting that their doctor had mistaken them for the opposite sex.^1 Rather than being frustrated about this, the person was glad – even celebrating their success in presenting as the opposite sex.^2 The post expressed a sense of…
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Dirty Clothes
Dirty clothes, dirty clothes It’s all we have to show The more we wash the worse we are The stain remains All we gain are scars We need a love that pierces Deeper than our restless fumbling fingers A grace that makes us new, not just repainted And gives us hearts that love what we…
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Vineyard – A Song
Jesus Christ has sown his vineyard with the hands and feet of love loving hands have sown the gospel steeled by grace they are unworthy of yet opened wide to share his goodness opened wide to share his truth, his might your light you have given us and with others we share the night is…
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Sowing and Foreloved Workmanship I saw on Reddit today someone was concerned about what they saw as someone making that person their “religious project” (Reddit). Certainly, it wasn’t clear to which church the post-maker was being invited to, or everything involved in their understanding of “religious,” but the post I read did reflect a sense…
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