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Having some Word(s)
The other day in my small group, we were going over Ephesians 5:22 (wives, submit to your husbands) and the surrounding verses. As you can imagine, this was a bit of a touchy subject, so I will try to...
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Asherah, Ba’al, PSA, and Reformed Theology
** I do not speak for all of Merging Lanes. I am solely responsible for this post. Other writers here at ML affirm the reformed tradition as their own. ** Over the weekend, Tony Jones had posted two...
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Death’s Sting
I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about death. Actually, I’m always thinking about death (and life), it’s an occupational hazard of an ICU nurse. What interests me is the way faith impacts one’s...
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In All Things, Charity
I received an email from a former editor with a freelance writing assignment. A church in Illinois is running a campaign to sell uniquely packaged water bottles with it’s church’s logo in order to...
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Rest Stop (returns!)
Terry Eagleton: Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching (London Review) Such is Dawkins’s unruffled scientific impartiality that in a book of almost four hundred pages, he can scarcely bring himself to concede...
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The Christian(ist) Case for Gay Marriage
For the limited purpose of making the case here for gay marriage, I will assume that the traditional literal interpretation of I Corinthians 6:9-10 and the other verses condemning sodomy is correct;...
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History of Church
Frank Viola recently twittered, “there’s a huge difference between loving the church of Jesus Christ and loving a system that’s called “church.” Much confusion abounds here.” The definition of church...
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The Post That Will Tank My Future Political Career
Again, for the purpose of this post, I will be assuming the position of a pro-lifer who is convinced that abortion is murder. I recognize that this is a minority position at Merging Lanes and in...
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Giving for Living
It has been a long time, and I’m not sure who still comes around to this blog, but I feel the need to memorialize this sentiment into a post. While inspired only in bits and pieces and never quite...
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Jim Wallis
Last night, I went to go see Jim Wallis talk. He spent a lot of time complaining about how our modern sensibility was greedy, insensitive to the common good, etc. He thought there was a time back when...
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