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Holy Saturday: Following Job beyond a Heretical Praise Song

Passion week thrusts us into a realm of uncertainty amidst the certainty of Christ that should unsettle us to our very core.  As we sit now before both an empty cross and a tomb now filled with our Savior – is it right to wonder where this is all leading?  To ask what is going to happen now?  Sure, many Christians know how the story ends (SPOILER ALERT!) and the fact … There’s more to read here.

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CCM as Lenten practice: Finding Larry Norman in the desert

Lent is a season of justice – it is a season of deep reconciliation, of bare bones truth-telling, a redirecting of hungers and longings that have gone astray, but it is essentially a season of justice.  As I will tell students as we enter Ash Wednesday that they are called to remember along with Adam and Eve in Genesis 3:19 that they too will “return to the ground from which they … There’s more to read here.

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