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“Therefore, we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away” (Hebrews 2:1). Mother reared me with firmness, Dad more gently, but there was never a cross word in the house. I could count my mother’s aphorisms as stern, but I never dared talk back. I learned right […]
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Somewhere in the lexicon of Christian thought, the idea of tolerance crept in to suggest this was the whole and final conclusion one should draw from Christ’s teaching. I think the idea has seeped into our collective conscious from a culture clamoring only for a surface understanding. To believe this as the whole of Christ’s
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In my mind, I’m traveling across the South Carolina sand hills, driving the backroads passing landmarks so familiar each barely receives notice. The car glides over the blacktop and bridges while my mind reaches back through my memories, gliding just as easily down those neural pathways and jumping across synaptic junctions as if each a
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with that judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you” (Matthew 7: 1,2). If I close my eyes and draw from my reservoir, wafting through my mind is the smell of sweat and cheap detergent, the sight of
