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Life to the Full (opens the original)
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(Pre-sermon Scripture: John 3:1-21 from N. T. Wright’s New Testament For Everyone)<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="361" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/
A Non-Lawyer's Understanding of Karmelo Anthony's Case (opens the original)
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I am not a lawyer (IANAL), but I do think it’s important for citizens, and for followers of Jesus concerned with justice—as Rev. Traci Blackmon put it—to “pay attention to the moral story unfolding beneath the legal arguments”. Below is my (unfiltered) attempt at doing so for Karmelo Anthony’s self-defense trial.Basics of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20260610203748/https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/live-updates/live-updates-karmelo-anthony-murder-trial-fatal-stabbing-austin-m
How to do Social Change... Anyone? Anyone? (opens the original)
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There’s a scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day off in which Ben Stein, who famously plays Ferris’s economics teacher, drones through a lecture to a room of profoundly uninterested students. and periodically asks the class a question. When no one responds, he repeats the same refrain: Anyone? Anyone?<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tLe9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2
3 White Men, 2 Independence Days, and an Ideology in Search of a History (opens the original)
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I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve restarted, rewritten, and restructured this post. <img alt="Starry night view of the Waring Ranch House, Parashant National Monument, AZ." class="sizing-normal" height="974" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/
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