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What’s the deal with stewardship? It’s an interesting word. Steward. Sometimes, it’s a noun. Less often, it’s a verb. How does this ancient concept apply to lives lived in this millennium? As a concept, should it apply to me as I work through my discernment? How? It’s an interesting idea. It involves action without ownership….

The opposite of faith is not unbelief but futility. Christianity is based on what must be the ultimate happy ending – the story of the resurrection of Jesus. Volumes have been written, churches have been divided, and purported heretics have been burned over the supposed “meaning” of this event. But the event, I think, is…

It’s hard to find a really good way to celebrate a secular Easter.  The crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ are not the stuff of simple and lightweight symbols. Easter transmits a complex message, transported through time through a sacrament of blood-wine and body-bread on an altar derived from a sacrificial cult. The best the…

…and he is like Jesus. Neither statement is to be taken for granted, and both are very significant for life in this generation. The knowledge/sense/preference/belief that there is a God is a choice.  That is to say, there is no absolutely compelling evidence in the same way that you could say, for example, “There is…