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Recent Posts:

• Things I’ve Learned about Psalm 23
• The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: June 15, 2019
• Apocalyptic = Resistance Literature
• God’s Good Earth: The Case for an Unfallen Creation, by Jon Garvey: Chapter 2 – Scripture on the Fall
• Another Look: Now. On Earth.
• Another Look: A More Grounded Gospel
• Monday with Michael Spencer: On Transactionalism
• Pentecost: How to Convey the Un-conveyable?
• The Saturday Internet Monks Brunch: June 8, 2019
• When Prayer Is Something Else Altogether
• God’s Good Earth: The Case for an Unfallen Creation, by Jon Garvey
• Another Look: My Journey Alongside the Spirit-Filled
• Tuesday with Michael Spencer
• Prayer, Power, and Proclamation
• A Week of Prayers in Preparation for Pentecost
• Saturday Brunch, June 1, 2019
• A Day Off
• Is There Purpose in Biology?  The Cost of Existence and the God of Love. By Denis Alexander, Chapter 6- Death, Pain, Suffering, and the God of Love
• Another Look: Seasons and Paths of Formation
• IM Recommended Listening: Kate Rusby
• Memorial Day with Michael Spencer
• You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
• A Better Kingdom Vision
• Another Look: Outsider Lessons
• Is There Purpose in Biology?  The Cost of Existence and the God of Love. By Denis Alexander, Chapter 5- The Christian Matrix Within Which Biology Flourishes
• Wednesday with Michael Spencer: Why People Get Upset that I’ve Changed (and Am Changing)
• Rachel, we — the uncool — will miss you
• Richard Beck on Weakness and the Spirit
• Another Look: Emmaus
• The Coming Roman Catholic Collapse?
• Some questions that came up this week…
• Is There Purpose in Biology?  The Cost of Existence and the God of Love. By Denis Alexander, Chapter 4: Biology, Randomness, Chance and Purpose (Part 2)
• A Confusion of Place and Time
• Bits of Wisdom from Jean Vanier
• Monday with Buechner: Where Our Best Dreams Come From
• Sunday with Michael Spencer: A Jesus Prayer
• Random Thoughts from a Black Pouring
• In Memoriam: Jean Vanier
• Is There Purpose in Biology?  The Cost of Existence and the God of Love. By Denis Alexander, Chapter 4: Biology, Randomness, Chance and Purpose (Part 1)
• “Begin with fear of death”
• Another Look: Make the Way by Walking
• Another Look: God’s Scandalous Patience
• Another Look: Living as Easter People (2)
• A Sad Announcement
• Saturday with Michael Spencer: Things You Can’t Say Around Other Christians
• Some things you might not know about Chaplain Mike…
• Is There Purpose in Biology?  The Cost of Existence and the God of Love. By Denis Alexander, Chapter 3: Biology’s Molecular Constraints
• Always the Road Redux
• Return from the West
• Damaris Zehner: Rebranding Christianity
• Another Look: Living as Easter People (1)
• Saturday with Michael Spencer: The Things that Won’t Go Away
• Damaris Zehner: Evangelizing in a Time of Collapse
• Is There Purpose in Biology?  The Cost of Existence and the God of Love. By Denis Alexander, Chapter 2: Biology’s Grand Narrative
• Scott Lencke: Space and Place: In the Aftermath of Notre Dame
• Randy Thompson: It’s Spring, Sort of
• Easter Monday 2019: A Quiet, Personal Easter
• The 3 Days — Easter Sunday 2019
• The 3 Days — Holy Saturday 2019
• The 3 Days — Randy Thompson: Good Friday Meditation
• Maundy Thursday 2019
• Wednesday in Holy Week 2019
• Tuesday in Holy Week 2019
• Monday in Holy Week 2019
• Palm Sunday with Frederick Buechener
• It Has Been a Week…
• Is There Purpose in Biology?  The Cost of Existence and the God of Love. By Denis Alexander, Chapter 1: The Historical Roots of Purpose in Biology
• Funeral Sermon: A Day Like Holy Saturday
• Another Look: A Breviary on Grief and Mourning
• Another Look: Live into the “What” not the “Why”
• lent 5 — life and death and food and wine…
• And this is Lent…
• My Journey with Michael Spencer
• 21 Grams
• Wednesday with Michael Spencer: Michael’s Final Post
• What the Bible Actually Teaches (5) — Open Mic Edition
• April Fools on Me: That Insidious Root Sin
• lent 4 — father, son, and brother
• Lent with John Prine: Sam Stone
• Quotable Quotes: Cherry Picking
• Is There Purpose in Biology?  The Cost of Existence and the God of Love. By Denis Alexander
• How the Bible Actually Works (4)
• The Mueller Investigation
• Another Look: Our Terrestrial Hope
• lent 3 — is time running out?
• Lent with John Prine: Paradise
• Quotable Quotes: Women in the Church
• Scrupulosity: Where OCD Meets Religion, Faith, and Belief
• How the Bible Actually Works (3)
• Tuesday with Michael Spencer: Is This the “Better World” You Were Talking About?
• Goodbye Facebook
• lent 2 — foxes and hens
• Lent with John Prine: Hello in There
• Klasie Kraalogies: Rhythm — An Atheist Contemplates Lent
• A Review of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
• Wednesday with Michael Spencer: What’s Growing in the Shadow of Anger?
• Wisdom and Hope
• Richard Hershberger — Strike Four: The Evolution of Baseball
• lent 1 — beyond the wilderness
• A Lenten Meditation: As Miserable as the Day