More outstanding Stanley Hauerwas goodness from The Work Of The People. Travis and Steve just keep putting out fantastic material.
Topics: entertainment, liturgy, The+Work+Of+The+People, video, worship

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Here's the brief review I just put up on Amazon for Advent Conspiracy: Can Christmas Still Change the World? In short, it's an outstanding book. You must admit, it’s a pretty interesting way to celebrate the birth of Jesus. God...
Topics: book, Christianity, Christmas, compassion, consumerism, Greg+Holder, Jesus, materialism, shopping, stuff, video

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Well, my wise friend Matt spoke up about the post A Blog Post of Olympic Proportions: I was wondering about the fact that there are over 20 comments on "atonement" and what is the "right" way to look at a...
Topics: Christianity, church, Olympics, poverty, Vancouver

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(h/t Chris Curtis)
Topics: film, movie, Surrogates, trailer

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Two thoughts for you this morning. The first is from Richard Rohr (Everything Belongs) The religious version of egocentricity is wanting to be right and wanting to be in perfect control. To give that up is major surgery. Religion might...
Topics: certainty, mysterr, Richard+Rohr, right

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