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Advent / Beloved Community / Christianity / Christmas / humor / Liturgical

Advent South Of The Border Style

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No, not Mexico, I’m talking about The Tackiest Place On Earth, good old S.O.B., located right on the border of North and South Carolina. To the uninitiated, this may seem …

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It’s Advent (Sigh) Pt V

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It’s usually around this point that I begin wondering why I chose to do a series of blog posts and this time is no exception. Chalk it up to my …

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Advent / Beloved Community / Blogging / Christian humanism / Christianity / Christians / community / God / grace / Jesus / love / radical discipleship / spirituality

Angels Without Wings

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On occasion, the staff at College Park Baptist Church will ask members for stories about our lives. At the beginning of Advent, they did it again, this time asking stories …

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Advent / community / Evil / justice / Life / love / oppression / persecution / Social Justice / suffering / violence

It’s Advent (Sigh) Pt IV

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It’s time for the next installment in this curmudgeonly bitch-fest about Advent. Today, we will discuss “joy”. And, before you ask, I don’t have a problem with joy: I have a …

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It’s Advent (Sigh) PtIII

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In the continuing saga of my issues with Advent, we talk about yet another of those words connected with it: hope. Now, one of the best things about being a …

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It’s Advent (Sigh) Pt II

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On Monday, I wrote about my problems with Advent. After a rather snarky start, I said Advent was hard for me, in part, because of the words associated with it: hope, …

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Advent / Christianity / Christmas / Doubt / economic justice / God / holiness / Jesus / justice / Liturgical / Progressive / progressives / radical discipleship / Social Justice / spirituality / theology

It’s Advent (Sigh)

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Yesterday was the beginning of Advent and posts about it are starting to show up in my news feed. I am not happy about that, in part, because Advent posts are almost as …

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