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Holy book, batman!

In our culture people don’t often call things holy, except in an irreverent way; “Holy cow!”  “What an unholy mess!”  or Robin’s famous line, “Holy cliffhangers, Batman!” Yet we have a book, or maybe more than one copy of a … Continue reading

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Finding our outside voice

When people are together for a long time they start to speak to each other with an inside voice. They use short forms and references that they don’t have to explain. For example in our church there might be an … Continue reading

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