Clifton Stringer
Christ is Coming Back, and Advent Is Coming with Him
This morning as I was returning from my morning walk, I saw our dog Radar, a personable Corgi-Chihuahua mystery-mutt, playing in the front yard. With his elongated body, short…
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Article Apostolic Bishops and Base Followers
What makes a Christian bishop? As my own United Methodist denomination is busy sunning itself in Tampa, FL at General Conference 2012, and deciding (among other restructuring…
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Blog Blinding Light into Lent
The harshest and most unwelcome light I can recall woke me up at 6 AM in Brownsville, TX during the mission trips on which my church sent the middle school youth group. Lights…
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Article Why Lent?
Last year on Ash Wednesday, a kind woman from the congregation I serve asked me, “Why Lent? Why should Christians observe a season called Lent?” She was a longtime…
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Article The Vampire Gospel
Zacchaeus is a vampire. He is a tax collector, an extortionist, a traitor against the good life of his Jewish people. Zacchaeus is a creature of darkness, drinking the blood of…
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Blog Historical Jesus Clearance Sale!
Not only in the commercial world but in the realm of ideas as well, our age is holding a veritable clearance sale. -Kierkegaard In exultant commemoration of the much anticipated, …
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