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Alan Jacobs offers some helpful reflections on Christian traditions accessing a new way through dialogue with Rod Dreher's recent post ahead of the release of his book The Benedict Option. That’s it, I think. You have to get to the end of your rope, you have to come to the point where you can’t live any …
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In response to my article at the Journal Sentinel ("What would Jesus say about 65 million refugees?"), I had a few people ask me for more information related to the current refugee situation, what is really going on currently in our nation, and what the proposed ban on refugees is all about. Since more than …
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This week I wrote an Op Ed for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel entitled "What would Jesus say about 65 million refugees." Here is the beginning of the article: At a time when the world is facing the greatest refugee crisis in recorded history with more than 65 million people forcibly displaced from their homes President …
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When the elections happened last Tuesday I was in Rwanda with a mission team (I did vote by absentee ballot ahead of time). As things played out during the week my staff asked me to consider writing a letter that they could read in church while I was away. Since my return from Rwanda yesterday, …
Is the terrifying trend in American politics a slim chance to recover our souls? Will the alarming rhetoric and substanceless rampaging open the eyes of our people to reality, meaning, and consequences, or have we teetered over the edge of sanity into the purgatorial spiral of steady cultural decay? Will the remnant stand up, speak …
Matthew Erickson 