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“Enmeshed Encounter:” why the Christian Year and the life cycle of Jesus matter more than ever before

June 2, 2021 Adam W. Shahan

I am going to say something that you have not often heard in your daily living: I love a good funeral. Organizations and strategists often

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Bottom of the hill: faith found in the nursing home

July 30, 2020 Adam W. Shahan

I used to handle worship services for two different nursing homes early in my ministry. One nursing home was at the top of the hill.

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Bonhoeffer’s Blessing: Reading the Beatitudes during Lent

March 10, 2020 Adam W. Shahan

“Blessed are…” Dietrich Bonhoeffer believed that Jesus was referring to the Hebrew word eshrey (deeply happy/incomprehensibly happy) as he spoke in Matthew 5:1-12, rather that

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In Periculo Mortis: Advent and the Danger of Death

December 7, 2012 Adam W. Shahan

Matthew 2:16-23 (NRSV) 16 When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all

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Batman and Baptism: Superheros and Alter-Egos

September 6, 2012 Adam W. Shahan

Water is an element of nature that has become a part of rites and rituals in many of the world’s great religions. This comes as

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