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In cooking, reduction is the process of thickening and intensifying the flavors in a liquid by simmering or boiling. You reduce excess moisture and the flavors that remain are more powerful and appealing. This seems an appropriate analogy for what the...

My pastor, in his thirties, posted an appeal to Baby Boomers on Facebook. This post is in response to his request. You can read his post here before my response begins...
Baby Boomers, we need your voice right now.
Of course, my parents are Boomers, but growing up and working in church I also have a lot of Boomer friends. I love y’all and so thankful for you. And we really (really) need your voice right now. Many of us look up to you in a very literal sense, so...

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I live in Indianapolis, Indiana these days. Over the past weekend peaceful protests here, as across the United States, were co-opted by those bent on violence and destruction. Stores were looted, cars burned, and, here in Indy, two people shot and killed...

It should come as no surprise that since humanity's fall into sin we have been in conflict. It is the nature of our existence. More often than not that conflict has coalesced around those of differing belief systems. For simplicity sake the conflicts...