If You Love Me You Will Love the Church?
Church is a baggage word.
There are sins and scars aplenty that come with the word. Deep hurts, abuse, and neglect that has left us reeling. There are memories even as new as this week that tell us how rough the hands of church can be as they bruise and batter. Church is a word that is so dirty in so many ways.
So why do people tell me to love the church? Why do people use the good to seemingly…
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Brandon Rhodes- Hyperlocal Spirituality
Friends, welcome to All Things Made New, a podcast exploring…
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In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Growing up, I went camping quite often. I…
All new episode of All Things Made New! Brandon Johnson is our guest, and we talk about words and his translation project, the LIT Bible.
Friends, welcome to The Book of Common Words, where we explore the Christian spirituality of being human through podcast, poetry, and prose about my life, art, and the Christian faith. I’m your writer, Aaron. This publication is 100% reader supported. Thanks for joining me in this exploration.
Friends, welcome to All Things Made New.
This week we get to talk again to my good friend, Brandon…
New essay up on The Book of Common Words. I’m exploring the question, what is the meaning of God in this hurting world.
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I spill a lot of words talking about God.
Trying to understand God, to make sense of the source of…
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Hello friends.
Today, we get a chance to talk to Mike Shipley about anarchy and the kingdom of…
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The world feels like a tire fire.
War in Palestine—more accurately, genocide—rages on with the US providing the…
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In this episode, we get to talk to a new friend, Megan McDermott
Megan McDermott is a poet and Episcopal priest…
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The end of time has always fascinated me.
I grew up in a household that held firmly to a dispensational reading…
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What does it take to be a man? This question haunts the halls of churches obsessed with de-feminizing…
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There is this song we sing in my church right before we receive the Eucharist. It’s a call and response between…
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