Thou Shalt Not Kill In Exodus 20:13, we find a simple, seemingly unambiguous command: "Thou shalt not kill" (KJV). Taken at face value, this commandment suggests that all taking of life is forbidden - a reality that seems odd in light of the thousands of deaths through…
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Mood Rings
Mood Rings When I was a kid, I was obsessed with mood rings. You probably remember them - cheap plastic rings with swirly stones shaped like hearts or moons that promised to reveal your true feelings. I wasn't allowed to wear jewelry growing up, but every time we…
Crazy Love
Crazy Love Think of the person you love most in the world. Maybe it’s your spouse, your mom, you brother, your child. Maybe it’s your best friend, or the person who stepped in and became your home when your family abandoned you. You’d make sacrifices, go broke,…
Justice & Mercy
Justice & Mercy It was the early 1980s, and the AIDS epidemic was sweeping through North America, making people into social pariahs and killing them in weeks. Affecting mainly gay men and drug abusers, AIDS was so stigmatized that President Ronald Reagan wouldn’t even refer to it by name.…
Peculiar Preachers
Peculiar Preachers Shane Claiborne isn’t about to win any beauty contests. Tall and almost painfully skinny, with glasses, a scraggly beard and dreadlocks that he pulls back with a faded bandana, he has the intense, slightly crazed look in his eyes that you often find in street preachers. When…