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The Pursuit of Heaven: An Agile Way?

If Life on Earth Were Dev or TestAnd Home Were Prod at End,One Shot, One Check To Meet the Spec,One Push To Prod, No Mend.If Home on Earth Were Life in ProdWhere Good for God We Grow,The Path We Need, With God We Seed,Each Day We Reap and Sow. In Christianity, heaven...

A Lord-Inspired Prayer

In their podcast series Sermon on the Mount, the BibleProject team devoted several episodes to the Lord’s Prayer.  As part of their offering, they asked guest song-writers to set the prayer to song.  Many of their listeners followed suit, contributing some...

Believing in Saving Jesus

One of the books that I have read a couple of times and found both inspiring and challenging is Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus by Robin Meyers (2009) — hereafter, referred to as Saving Jesus.  The book is...

Humility: In Minds and Hearts and Acts

Ever wonder what Jesus’ message of turning the other cheek is all about?  Clearly, it’s a challenge for us.  But what’s the point? To understand the challenge better, we need to look more closely at the concept of humility.  What is humility?  What...

The After-Womb: A Parable

Preface I had been working on a parable about near-term precocious twin fetuses that were contemplating the nature of the after-womb.  As I was finalizing the wording, I encountered a post by Kathy Roman in bahaiteachings.org that highlighted the same metaphor, which...