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The House of Christmas

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There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are at home. The crazy stable close at hand, With shaking timber and shifting sand, Grew a stronger thing …

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The Death of Hope Part 4 The Remixed

In Article, Our Blog by Church Leadership Center

By and large, today’s new cults of and for the Remixed are what I will call “intuitional religions.” By this, I mean that their sense of meaning is based in narratives that simultaneously reject clear-cut creedal metaphysical doctrines and institutional …

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The Death of Hope (Part 2)

In Article, Our Blog by Larry Doornbos

If there is no hope, there is no future.  In his 1992 novel The Children of Men (Made into a movie of the same name in 2006), P.D. James tells of a future where no children are born. James insists …

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The Death of Hope (Part 1)

In Article, Our Blog by Larry Doornbos

“…there’s an extraordinary wave of depression and anxiety in teens and adults, for example. There was one analysis that said that 44 percent of American 8th, 10th, and 12th graders report feeling, at times, that, quote, ‘my life is not …