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People Don’t Change Because You Tell Them to Repent

My Pastoral Theology professor was a sage: proverbial sayings, experience, the “look” – he had it all. The only Anglo-Catholic priest at my evangelical Episcopal seminary, he was the least likely source of radical grace. Surrounded by young seminarians eager to change the world, he would drop adages like “people can’t hear you until they’re…

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Welcome to Advent in the Dark

It took less than an hour for an Iowa jury to find a 28-year-old Iowa father guilty of murder after his 4-month-old son was found dead in a motorized swing last year. Zachary Koehn was convicted of first-degree murder and child endangerment causing death. On Aug. 30, 2017, authorities arrived at the home of Koehn…

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