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Author: Howard Snyder

Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior

Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior: A Novel. New York: HarperCollins, 2012. 437 pp. — Barbara Kingsolver is a fine writer. One can learn a lot about writing just from carefully reading her superbly crafted work. She

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May Your Kingdom Come. Really.

Consider these fourteen words from the Sermon on the Mount. “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). Have these words lost meaning through over-familiarity? I suppose

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Where Are the Reformers?

The world is a mess. Where are the reformers? Americans are frustrated with what is variously called “gridlock” or “dysfunction” in Washington. We face boat-loads of other problems and issues, from obesity (of all things!)

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Where Are the Reformers?

The world is a mess. Where are the reformers? Americans are frustrated with what is variously called “gridlock” or “dysfunction” in Washington. We face boat-loads of other problems and issues, from obesity (of all things!)

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The World Is Getting Safer

The world is a getting safer. For centuries, violence has been subsiding. Really? Most people find this hard to believe. But consider evidence presented by Stephen Pinker in his fascinating book, The Better Angels of

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The World Is Getting Safer

The world is a getting safer. For centuries, violence has been subsiding. Really? Most people find this hard to believe. But consider evidence presented by Stephen Pinker in his fascinating book, The Better Angels of

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How in Heaven’s Name Do We Think?

How do you think? Ever thought about that? Not everyone thinks the same way. We all tend to think—that is, to reason—in different ways, depending upon influences that have shaped us. Probably genetics plays a

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Church Business or Kingdom Business?

  The Church gets in trouble whenever it thinks its in the church business rather than the kingdom business. In the church business, people are concerned with church activities, religious behaviour and spiritual things. In

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God’s Parabolic Kingdom

Hear now these parables of the kingdom. Parable of the Praiseful Servant The king of a great land was about to take a long journey. He called his top three officials together. “I am putting

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