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poetic justice

When I hear the term “poetic justice” the first image that comes to mind was a video from one of those 90’s home video humor shows.  The video showed a group of middle school aged girls carrying one of their friends toward a lake with the intention of throwing her in.  Although when they were [...]

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Recently I attended Crosspoint Methodist Church with Paula when we were visiting her family for Thanksgiving. The thing that impressed me the most about the service was Rev. David Biser’s side stewardship mini-sermon before the offering. It was prompted as a follow up to a challenge issues a few months ago for everyone [...]

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My previous article on sweatshops got some interesting responses both in posted comments and conservations with others. To my surprise one female readers told me that as a result of the post she feels that she should give up underwear because she is unable to afford nor willing to pay $12 a pair for [...]

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When it comes to getting across causes of justice people often believe that there are strength in numbers which is true but in to the extent that we would like to believe. But then again maybe that is just because we are focusing upon the playing field of democracy when in reality the game [...]

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In the past I’ve written at least one post about the problems of consumerism. If this is a topic that interests you, check out The Story of Stuff a short 20 minute online documentary which gives the complete story of the shocking life of consumer goods and the darker environmental and social economical [...]

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My visit to a food bank

On January 19th, I visited the food pantry run by CrossPoint United Methodist church, which assists around 13 local families, around 70 people, both inside and outside of their church. The food pantry is fully sponsored by the donations of the congregation, through a combination of donated nonperishable food items and a modest budget [...]

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This semester in seminary I’m taking a class called Hebrew Prophets on the Old Testament prophetic books. One of our assignments was to write a judgment oracle for today in English but in the style of Hebrew poetry around an issue that we feel strongly about. The assignment is not to be taken as Scripture [...]

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