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Bruce Epperly: First Do No Harm! (Job, Anne Graham Lotz …)

by Dr. Bruce G. Epperly, pastor, professor, and author of Finding God in Suffering: A Journey with Job, Process Theology: Embracing Adventure with God, Healing Marks: Healing and Spirituality in Mark’s Gospel, and more! One of the first principles of medicine and ministry is “first do no harm.” This is sagely advice, since it is easier to say…

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Edward W. H. Vick: Authority and Orthodoxy

by Edward W.H. Vick, retired professor and author of Philosophy for Believers, Creation: The Christian Doctrine, From Inspiration to Understanding: Reading the Bible Seriously and Faithfully and more! The explanation of authority might sound like this. (1) God has called and appointed the elders as custodians of the truth. God has ordained the leaders of the community and given…

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Tabitha Edwards – Walton: The Uniform of the Law

by Tabitha Edwards-Walton, nurse, mother of a special needs child, poet and author of Poetic Life Experiences and Poetic Diversities For the men and women who wear the uniform of the law. You each have taken the oath to protect and serve. Every day you put your own life on the line, to keep ours safe. Sometimes you…

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Elgin Hushbeck, Jr.: The Least Bad Choice

by Elgin Hushbeck, Jr., Engineer, Christian apologist, and author of Christianity and Secularism, Preserving Democracy: What the Founding Fathers Knew, What We Have Forgotten, and How It Threatens Democracy  and What is Wrong with Social Justice? Many people have complained in the past about having undesirable choices when going to the ballot box, but never has the nation…

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Bruce Epperly: Philippians and Facebook Etiquette for Christians

by Dr. Bruce G. Epperly, pastor, professor and author of Process Theology: Embracing Adventure with God, Finding God in Suffering: A Journey with Job, Transforming Acts: Acts of the Apostles as a 21st Century Gospel, Ruth and Esther: Women of Agency and Adventure, and more! A number of years ago, I wrote a piece in which I asserted that…

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Herold Weiss: Why are you afraid?

by Dr. Herold Weiss, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN and author of Meditations on According to John, Meditations on the Letters of Paul, Creation in Scripture, and Finding my Way in Christianity: Recollections of a Journey As spectators of the current campaigns for the presidency of the United States, we…

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Bob Cornwall: What Use is God?

by Dr. Robert D. Cornwall, pastor and author, from his blog, Ponderings on a Faith Journey. Author of Ultimate Allegiance: The Subversive Nature of the Lord’s Prayer, Unfettered Spirit: Spiritual Gifts for the New Great Awakening, Marriage in Interesting Times: A Pariticipatory Study Guide, and more! What use is God if God can’t or won’t prevent evil from occurring? That’s…

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Allan Bevere: We Need the Whole of Scripture for Christian Ethics

from the personal blog of Dr. Allan Bevere, pastor, professor, and author of Politics of Witness: The Character of the Church in the World, Colossians and Philemon: A Participatory Study Guide, and more Christians have always struggled to view the whole of Scripture as authoritative in a practical sense, but it has become fashionable of late to…

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David Moffett-Moore: God of All Creation

by Dr. David Moffett-Moore, pastor and author of The Jesus Manifesto: A Participatory Study Guide to the Sermon on the Mount, Pathways to Prayer, Wind and Whirlwind: Being a Pastor in a Storm of Change, and more!   The Psalmist writes, “O God, our God, how majestic is your name over all creation!” as book-ends for a psalm…