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Introduction | Part I | Part II
Now that I’ve got the whole political/(a)political reasoning off my chest I can move into some more metaphors. Again, I’d love to hear from you, if you have an idea don’t hesitate.
I originally envisioned this being two different posts, one on “the democracy of God” and one [...] Read more »

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Introduction: It Should Change, But to What?
Part I: The Community of God
Just to warn you, this may end up being a pretty long post.
I hate to break the flow of things here, but I really need to. I started this series to explore different images and metaphors that we could use instead of [...] Read more »

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Introduction: It Should Change, But to What?
The image of the community of God is perhaps the most simple and basic metaphor we could use when characterizing God’s alternative reality. Or so it seems.
We like to talk about community a lot in “the church.” We seem to understand that cultivating some sort of a [...] Read more »

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I’ve been thinking about what we call the “Kingdom of God” quite a bit recently. Well, for the past several months actually. This is what I’ve noticed. We do a great job of describing what the kingdom is, what it should be, and how it might look when actualized or realized [...] Read more »

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A few weeks ago I posted a link to a Hauerwas lecture on the end of religious pluralism. Well, I found another one.  I haven’t listened to it yet, but here is a lecture given at University of Illinois-Urbana entitled, “Sacrificing the Sacrifices of War.”  Again, I haven’t listened to it, so I can’t vouch for how good it may or may not be. This guy said [...] Read more »

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