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A Gospel According To Judas

A Gospel According To Judas

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I think Judas Iscariot gets a bad wrap. His name far surpasses “Benedict Arnold!” as a designation for traitor. He appears in the center of Hell in Dante’s Inferno along side Brutus and Cassius (betrayers of Julius Caesar!). He is the penultimate backstabber. And yet I have heard very few sermons about Judas. For someone who is near solely responsible for the short series of events that lead to Jesus’ state-sanctioned execution, he gets very little attention. Today is Maundy…

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Teenage Wilderness: Purgation and Discovery of Identity in Napoleon Dynamite

Teenage Wilderness: Purgation and Discovery of Identity in Napoleon Dynamite

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What are you gonna give up for Lent, Napoleon? Whatever I feel like! GOOSSHH!” Many of us have a movie dear to us that we feel best encapsulates or embodies our high school experience. For some, it is The Breakfast Club. For others, it’s Superbad. And still yet for others, some logic or affinity leads them to Degrassi. Mine is Napoleon Dynamite. Most people seem to either love or hate Napoleon Dynamite. Shortly after its release in 2004, a church…

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Love Lost and Rotten Cake: Lent and Great Expectations

Love Lost and Rotten Cake: Lent and Great Expectations

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I am a big fan of the work of Charles Dickens. Few writers of his era, or ours for that matter, wrote with such versatility. He could write satire, drama, and murder mysteries! He consistently wrote from the perspective of outcasts of society and about their interactions with the wealthy and elite. And he consistently and vividly described a Victorian England covered in grit, grease, and soot. He portrayed an England largely ignored by society’s upper crust. While such a…

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Lenten Stories: There, But Not There

Lenten Stories: There, But Not There

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The death of a cherished friend or family member is truly an experience that is beyond description. Have you ever attempted to articulate the grief you feel at such a loss to someone who has never experienced it? All words fall short. It seems fitting, then, that God created in humanity a desire and drive for creative expression. Art of all sorts is what offers us a medium to express the inexpressible. If we want to begin to grasp the…

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Ash Wednesday: An Introduction to Lenten Stories

Ash Wednesday: An Introduction to Lenten Stories

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Almighty God, you have created us out of the dust of the earth: Grant that these ashes may be to us a sign of our mortality and penitence, that we may remember that it is only by your gracious gift that we are given everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen. Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return. Last night, my wife and I had these words spoken over us as we let a person…

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Let’s Be Done with One Night Stands: Christmas and Our Divine Love Affair

Let’s Be Done with One Night Stands: Christmas and Our Divine Love Affair

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Confession: I am a Christmas music junky. Halfway through November, I begin to patiently wait for Black Friday when it becomes socially acceptable to blare the season’s tunes ad nauseam for a month, including the occasional Hanukah jam (shout out to those Maccabees). I really love Christmas music, whether it be cheesy crooner songs about being snowed in with a lovely companion, or the richer, more vibrant hymns, like “O Holy Night.” If there is one thing that causes me…

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Advent(ure) Thoughts: I Wanna Know What Love Is

Advent(ure) Thoughts: I Wanna Know What Love Is

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It’s almost here. In fact, by the time you read this, Christmas Day may already be upon us! (Is this week a double feature? Mayhaps!) And now our Advent(ure) of the last several weeks is near its conclusion. On the fourth Sunday of Advent, if your tradition adheres to the church calendar and practices Advent, you and your community lit the last candle. It was probably purple, and it is sometimes referred to as the Angel candle and it is…

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Advent(ure) Thoughts: On Joy (or)The Simpsons Meet Santa’s Little Helper

Advent(ure) Thoughts: On Joy (or)The Simpsons Meet Santa’s Little Helper

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Tis the season for Christmas movies and television galore! Whether it be How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Jingle All the Way, A Christmas Story, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation or It’s a Wonderful Life, starring Jimmy Stewart, many of us have our seasonal staples and classics that we burn through between Black Friday and New Year’s Day. But have you ever noticed that these films and television specials are often more like Advent stories building up to Christmas? They all bear…

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Advent(ure) Thoughts/Minor Spoilers: The Peace of Dr. Strange

Advent(ure) Thoughts/Minor Spoilers: The Peace of Dr. Strange

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I know I am several weeks behind the film critics’ reviews on this one, but this past week I finally saw the latest installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Dr. Strange. And it was good; easily one of my favorite films in the MCU, besides Guardians of the Galaxy, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Yes, this post running double duty as… Advent(ure) Thoughts/ Minor Spoilers! Dr. Stephen Strange is one of the world’s most talented neurosurgeons, and he knows…

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Advent(ure) Thoughts: “It’s Dangerous to Go Alone! Take This.”

Advent(ure) Thoughts: “It’s Dangerous to Go Alone! Take This.”

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Ah! Advent! No longer Thanksgiving, but not yet Christmas. And the “not yet Christmas” part is important because Advent is about the anticipation of Christmas. It is about the waiting and anticipating of the birth of God enfleshed in Christ. It is looking forward to that point in the church calendar when the Creator burst into Creation as never before and in a way no one could predict. But let’s not jump ahead to stables and shepherds and angels. The…

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