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cyril of alexandria
Here’s the 3rd reflection on Philippians 2: 5-11 from the Ancient Christian Devotional. He humbled himself, according to the Scriptures, taking on himself the form of a slave. He became like us that we might become like him. The work of the Spirit seeks to transform us by grace into a perfect copy of his…
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race, church and politics in america
We who live in this corner of the western Chicagoland suburbs tend to be fairly affluent and fairly white. There are plenty of exceptions (as my wife, who works with the working poor, could point out), but by in large we exist within a privileged white culture. One of the implications of this reality is…
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novatian
Here’s the 2nd reflection on Philippians 2: 5-11 from the Ancient Christian Devotional. The sovereignty of the divine Word temporarily submitted to assume a man and for a season humbled himself and abased himself, not exercising his nature through his powers, while he bore the man that he had assumed. He emptied himself when he…
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will you watch the olympics?
The news coming out of Tibet these days has brought up this question once again in my mind: Do I watch the Beijing Olympics this summer? In addition to pollution and land grabs associated with the Three Gorges Dam project and continued human rights abuse, now the government has severely cracked down on the Tibetan…
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epiphanius the latin
Given this week’s location between Palm and Easter Sundays, this week’s New Testament reading from the Ancient Christian Devotional seemed particularly appropriate. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the…
David W. Swanson
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