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A God big enough for bacteria

Painting of Atlas holding up the celestial globe

The railway forest is changing with the seasons. I recently took a walk through it, now that the bugs have died down enough that I probably wonโ€™t get West Nile Virus. Most of the forest …

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Eastern Christianity: A Journey

Eastern Christianity

The following is a talk which my departed grandmother invited me to give for her Sunday School class at First United Methodist Shreveport and which, due to some confusion, was given in its entirety to …

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Thoughts on our shared humanity

A bronze outdoor sculpture of a begging woman with her hand extended while wrapped in a blanket.

Back in the 1990s, the federal government realized that there were dorms and beds for a minimum security prison in one of the most curious of places: the countryโ€™s last hospital for persons who had …

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The things we do for orange Jesus

A teen girl sits on a boulder holding a cardboard sign that says in red "our future's on the line".

Liz Cheney, chair of the House Select Committee investigating the Attack on the Capitol recently revealed she overheard a fellow GOP Representative lament โ€œThe things we do for Orange Jesus.โ€ Cheney shared that her colleague …

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Being a Black Christian today

This piece originally appeared on the Website for Wayhouse Media on June 4, 2020 under the title “Being a Black Christian in 2020.” Matt Allbritton, the owner of Wayhouse, has joined the contributing authors at …

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