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Richard Dawkins The God Delusion click here.
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Pedro The Lion
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Quote for the day

William Feather – "No man is a failure who is enjoying life."

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Razing the Bar: Forgetting and Remembering

Razing the Bar: Forgetting and Remembering

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Reason is the Path to Faith but not to Oprah Winfrey

“Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more… Faith, without depending on reason for the slightest justification, never contradicts reason and remains ever reasonable. Faith does not destroy reason, but fulfills it.”

I started reading Thomas Merton’s “The Ascent to Truth” and it is, [...]

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Giesbrechtism

"If I can get away with not using that manual button, I do."

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Giesbrechtisms

Co-worker quote collection:
 

MIXED METAPHORS:
"Don’t open the door to a can of worms we don’t want."
"It was just an idea we were throwing around at each other."
"He was just flying off the wall!"
"I knew I was touching on new water there."
"We’re not breaking any daylight here…"
"I’m not saying we’re falling out of [...]

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Mohammed in the funny pages

The banner of free speech has been unfurled again, as it often is in times like these. Who knew cartoons could evoke such a response?
We all did.
Free speech should generally be invoked as a shield and not a sword; it is for saying things you believe in that are also offensive. [...]

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"If we have everything but have not… doctrine?"

The church my Father attends and preaches at holds a discussion period, an adult Sunday school if you will, immediately following the sermon. I wish more churches did this since I always find it is a great time to both find out what other people are thinking and to share a bit about what [...]

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"Radical Anabaptists"

I received a good amount of feedback for the post “Radical Anabaptists” on my “Roots and Branches” blog. What follows is a response to a reader:

A CONFESSION

Those of you who have known me in the past would now find me far more on the conservative side of most [...]

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More on persecution (not moron persecution)

Maybe persecution is essential to a healthy church…

Maybe we were never meant to establish and earthly kingdom based on biblical principles…

Maybe we were always meant to live in hostile surroundings and experience the perpetual purifying effects of constant persecution and avoid becoming the lumbering, gluttonous, Laodocian beast that we have become. Did we [...]

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