Life Lines Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/life-lines/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Fri, 21 Jul 2017 20:23:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg Life Lines Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/life-lines/ 32 32 170042892 Honest to God https://anglicanjournal.com/being-on-the-record-about-christ/ https://anglicanjournal.com/being-on-the-record-about-christ/#respond Wed, 08 Apr 2015 16:15:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/being-on-the-record-about-christ/ The majority of the writing I do these days is for secular media, which means I spend a lot of time denying God.

Mostly I try to rationalize my denial as banal, classifying it as errors of omission and therefore, not as egregious as outright denial. Although, when you think about it, St. Peter had armed Roman soldiers with a penchant for sadism and committing horrific acts of violence to contend with-what am I so afraid of, anyway? No one's going to nail me to a cross or feed me to the lions.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/being-on-the-record-about-christ/feed/ 0 112494 Rocking religion with my mega-contemporary mom https://anglicanjournal.com/rocking-religion-with-my-mega-contemporary-mom/ https://anglicanjournal.com/rocking-religion-with-my-mega-contemporary-mom/#respond Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:11:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/rocking-religion-with-my-mega-contemporary-mom/ The bilingual bookmark was meant to be a peace offering-a talisman around which my mother and I could meet religion halfway.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/rocking-religion-with-my-mega-contemporary-mom/feed/ 0 112512 Je Suis Charlie isn’t all that complicated https://anglicanjournal.com/je-suis-charlie-isn-t-all-that-complicated/ https://anglicanjournal.com/je-suis-charlie-isn-t-all-that-complicated/#respond Mon, 12 Jan 2015 20:54:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/je-suis-charlie-isn-t-all-that-complicated/ The New York Times estimates that nearly 1.6 million people marched in solidarity through the streets of Paris this past weekend. World leaders linked arms-Christians, Muslims and Jews alike-Francois Hollande, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ibrahim Boubackar Keita, Angela Merkel and Mahmoud Abbas, to name a few.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/je-suis-charlie-isn-t-all-that-complicated/feed/ 0 112498 The vocabulary of prayer https://anglicanjournal.com/the-vocabulary-of-prayer/ https://anglicanjournal.com/the-vocabulary-of-prayer/#respond Mon, 15 Dec 2014 19:11:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/the-vocabulary-of-prayer/ You could set your watch by how quickly my dad would come uncorked after my aunt's Christmas newsletter arrived-about 3.5 seconds, if memory serves. Auntie M. was famous for her long legs, enviable year-round tan, and saccharine seasonal epistles.

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