Second Snapshot- Some Timely Conversations About the Church

Thursday morning, waiting at the bus stop EARLY in the morning, trying to read what I could of an article for my 8 a.m. class- the woman next to me, puffing on a cigarette (the smoke was blowing away from me fortunately) asked “You go to school?  You a student?”   “Yes,” I replied, “I [...]

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figuring out church

When forced to give a research focus I say “Probably ecclesiology [fancy word for the study of the church], particularly the gap between confessional ecclesiology [what we say we believe about the church] and actual, lived church [how the church actually is and long has been]. For example, a chief belief of the church about [...]

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