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June 16, 2024–What Is It Like?

Warm-up Questions What superhero are you most like and why? Something Like a Simile The sports fans among us know that, right now in North America, two championship tournaments are in their last round. Both the National Hockey League (NHL) Stanley Cup Finals and the National Basketball Association (NBA) Championship Finals are occurring. These competitions feature some of this season’s best teams and players. For instance, this article compares Connor McDavid, a current player with the Edmonton Oilers, with another hockey player that many consider the best to ever play the game, Wayne Gretzky. Other writers compare one team to…

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December 11, 2022–Like Me, Like Christ

Colleen Montgomery, Salem,VA Warm-up Questions Did you ever have toy like was like you? If so, how was it like you?  What toy would you be excited to buy a younger sibling, cousin, or neighbor for Christmas?  Like Me, Like Christ Shoppers across the country are buying toys for Christmas presents for the children in their lives. While many toy manufacturers have increased the racial diversity of their dolls and action figures, there is a segment of children who still don’t see themselves in the toys they find under the tree on Christmas day. Children with disabilities and medical conditions. …

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On Being Child Like, Playful, and Joyous as the Christian’s Life of Theological Existence

All of life is theological, or it should be for the Christian. There isn’t one aspect of life, for me, that isn’t consumed by the love of Christ. And this, I think, is the basis for what ought to count as genuinely theological: viz. a life grounded in the prior reality that God in Christ first loved us that we might love Him. It is out of this constraint that the Christian’s life ought to be compelled to do all that it does and thinks from. Ever since I became a Christian, as a wee lad, I have had this…

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