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All Saints SundayNovember 4, 2007 Grace to you and peace, from God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.   When I was in middle school, my best friend Josh would often start counting down the days to his birthday about one hundred days out from the day, May 31. Think of it.  One hundredContinue reading “Esperemos”

Internship Project Proposal Name: Chris Congregation: St John’s By the Gas Station Project Area (check one)EcumenismEvangelismSocial MinistryLay MinistryStewardshipOther X What was your rationale for choosing this area? A few assumptions: God’s voice echoes in the whole world, not only in the church, reverberating off walls secular and sacred. Church members are active in many things,Continue reading “Real Faith in a Virtual Reality: Exploring the Intersection of Faith and Online Gaming”

August 20, 2007 In response to a post over at Get Religion on converts from Islam to other religions, several readers wrote comments labeling Islam an evil religion and citing a variety of texts, quotes and incidents as evidence of Islam’s evil and bloodthirsty nature.  (Comments since deleted, thankfully.) Though I’m no scholar of Islam,Continue reading “The Evil Christianity Project”

Google Maps (maps.google.com) has a color-coded, live traffic report function.  At the start of rush hour today, Google Maps shows that there is no traffic on I-35W crossing the Mississippi in Minneapolis.  Eerie. O God, send doers of your mercy and compassion to all impacted by this tragedy.  Amen.

In honor of the July 4th holiday, here are links to some past posts about faith and patriotism.  Have a wonderful Independence Day, and new posts will resume at some point next month. "A (wrong) Church-State Solution" – July 3, 2005 Paying Taxes – a missed opportunity – April 16, 2006 Praising God, Honoring CountryContinue reading “Independence Day”