Tag: Church
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The Evangelical Church: By Her Stripes We Are Killed
Invariably, upon meeting another veteran of twenty-five years or more in the evangelical church, I say empathetically, “Let’s pull up our shirts in back and compare stripes.” Sad but true. I once heard the late great African-American pastor Dr. Fred G. Sampson say, “The church is the only organization that shoots her wounded.” Several of…
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7 Lost Words of The Church
Words give us the ability to think. So it stands to reason, the more words we add to our vocabulary, the better we are able to think. My friend, Dr. Louis Markos calls poetry the “highest art form” for this very reason. The myriad layers of emotion and meaning expressed by poetry come from words….
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Letters From A Devastated Artist (4)
“Clearly the person who accepts the church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the church teaches” – St. Thomas Aquinas Dear Church, You have not loved me well. In fact, throughout our time together, I’ve felt used and abused. You use my talents to get people in the seats, but then you twist and…