Habakkuk is a fascinating book, and Habakkuk 3 is a fascinating chapter. This fall a few of us in Cuernavaca dug into it, just a little, and there is so much treasure there. Habakkuk struggled with the big issues, and he asked the big questions, and he didn’t always find the answers. When it came [...]
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Are Christians religious?
I have a feeling that question brings out some passionate responses in a lot of people. For some, it’s an emotionally loaded issue.
It could be argued that it’s really a question of semantics. Both the words "Christian" and "religious" are widely open to interpretation. Christian probably started out as a derogatory term (in [...]
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I’ve been curious about a couple of historic tidbits lately. One of these is the song "Simple Gifts" (lyrics found here). The story behind it is more interesting than I expected, so I thought I’d share it with you.
The history of the song goes back to Manchester, England in 1772. A religious group was started [...]
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You don’t have to be in Mexico (or any other third world country) to be faced with poverty. There seems to be a growing awareness among the wealthy that we are wealthy, and others are not.
But I am in Mexico, and I’m faced with poverty in a way that I wasn’t in Canada. I’d like [...]
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