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Theology Outside the Box
Summers when I was a teenager, I used to teach Vacation Bible School at the Church of Christ in Palestine, Texas. We used popsicle sticks to create little Noah’s Arks. We played Pin-the-Animal-to-the-Ark. We ate a snack of animal crackers. It was a blast. It might not have looked like it, but we were doing…
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Mulla Nasruddin is a fictional character in the folklore of the Muslim world from the Balkans to China, and a hero of numerous stories. Like this one, on a day when he was invited to deliver a sermon to the faithful. Mulla Nasruddin steps into the pulpit, the first thing out of his mouth is,…
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If you think that drag is just about a man wearing false eyelashes and a pussycat wig, or it’s just a woman wearing a pair of glued-on sideburns and an Elvis jumpsuit, then you have not heard the Gospel of RuPaul. If you’re a smart and sensitive soul, and your eyes are wide open to…
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“Welcome to the 7th grade—that hellish, shaky bridge you all must cross before you become members of the enviable high school elite.” That’s how Mr. Simonet greets his students, first day, first thing, in the movie, Pay It Forward, which was released in 2000. Was 7th grade like that for you, with all its adolescence…
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