Category: Church
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We Could Be (or at least think about) Heroes
All Saints Day is not really a holiday Baptists embrace, but perhaps we should. No, I don’t mean veneration of the seemingly countless number of Patron Saints who litter some calendars but I mean the point of it all, which is to remember the heroes and seek to emulate their lives, or at least the…
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Book Review: Howdy Pilgrim, a Review of Jesus and John Wayne
Okay, I couldn’t resist putting a John Wayneism in the title for my review of “Jesus and John Wayne”. Please forgive me. The book is 309 pages of text plus a lot more pages of notes, paperback, written by Kristin Kobes Du Mez. She has done good historical work, documented her sources, and covered the…
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Baptism: Three Possible Futures
In which Greenbean looks into his crystal ball and sees abominations