December 31, 2023–No Faith Lens This Week
There is no Faith Lens post this week “He came to his own home, and his own people received him not. But to all who received him he gave power to become the children of God” (RSV) ELCA Blogs
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Acts 6:8–7:2a, 51-60
59While they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." 60Then he knelt down and cried out in a loud voice, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." When he had said this, he died. Daily Bible Verse
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Tuesday’s Catch: ‘What are the Twelve Days of Christmas?’ And More
What are the Twelve Days of Christmas? There is a well-known Christmas song called the Twelve Days of Christmas. Some people think it is steeped in biblical allegories. This is the story…. The real story behind ‘Good King Wenceslas’ Think of it as the English-speaking world’s most popular day-after-Christmas carol.
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Kevin’s Suburban Panopticon?: Home Alone and the Christmas Spirit
For adult audiences revisiting the now classic 1990 film Home Alone, Kevin McCallister has become synonymous with a privileged rich kid who does not care about anyone but himself. Mincing no words, one Vice article puts it this way: “Kevin is, at his heart, a spoiled, entitled, rich suburban brat
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The Later Heidegger: Philosophy, Myth, and Revelation
Most scholars of Heidegger would agree that in the works he produced, from the middle of the 1930s on, not only is there an observable shift of orientation from Dasein to Sein, but also a shift of discursive register from the rigorous phenomenological and ontological method of Being and Time
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2023 Giving Machines are bringing joy to givers and receivers
The following is excerpted from the Church News. To read the full article, CLICK HERE. With Giving Machines operating in 61 locations during this Christmas season, more people than ever have had the opportunity to donate at the machines and therefore help someone in need. As of Dec. 18, approximately 350,000 people
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Marks of a Methodist 6: Perfection
Marks of a Methodist 6: Perfection By Thomas Lambrecht This edition of Perspective concludes our survey of the marks or characteristics of a Methodist, as put forward by Bishop Gerald Kennedy in his 1960 book of that name. We have seen that the marks of a Methodist include Experience (a
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Spiritual Rest
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day [God] rested from all his work. Here in Genesis 2:1, we learn about the continuing of creation, flora and fauna, rest from the six days God created the skies and