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On Retreat

Vol. 9, Num. 15 :: 2010-07-23 — 2010-09-09

Many folks will take at least one vacation over the summer, but vacation can be quite different from retreat. Some people rarely or never feel inclined to go on retreat, while others can’t imagine going without them on a regular basis. On the who, what, where, when, why and how of stepping away.

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A Good Sermon

Vol. 9, Num. 14 :: 2010-07-09 — 2010-07-22

One of the few places adults still regularly gather after they graduate from school to listen to someone speak is in church. Admit it: your attention wanders as badly as your kids’. Or maybe you’re a note taker. Or maybe you can remember a sermon that changed something for you forever. What makes a good sermon—either from your perspective in the pews or in the pulpit?

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Summer Days

Vol. 9, Num. 13 :: 2010-06-25 — 2010-07-08

Remember the feeling of getting out of school when you were a kid: the complete freedom of endless days with nothing to do except play in the yard? What do you remember most clearly about those days? On our childhood memories, but also what we’d change about the priorities of our adult lives…if we could.

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Going to the Chapel...Again

Vol. 9, Num. 12 :: 2010-06-11 — 2010-06-24

Two months after our issue about marriage and weddings, we’re re-visiting the topic to explore more specifically the unique aspects of getting married again -- planning another wedding, blending families, combining possessions, healing from past hurts.

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Arms Are for Hugging

Vol. 9, Num. 11 :: 2010-05-28 — 2010-06-10

Pronounced correctly, it sounds like “new clear,” but there’s certainly no consensus on what’s “clear” when it comes to nuclear weapons. Are they a justifiable last resort or an inexcusable artifact of human pride? How are Christians responding to this issue? Or is it simply a non-issue for most?

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System Overload

Vol. 9, Num. 10 :: 2010-05-14 — 2010-05-27

Is there really a man behind the curtain? Or is the notion of controlling “machine” just the paranoid imagining of conspiracy theorists? Reflections on how we live daily with the sense that something is not quite right with what humans have made of the world.

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Wake Up

Vol. 9, Num. 9 :: 2010-04-30 — 2010-05-13

From Plato’s allegory to contemporary films, stories abound that characterize human beings as slaves to illusion. Some might say that we love to be lied to, while others would contend that being fully awake is the only way to be fully human. On the pleasure and pain woven through process of waking up.