Tag: Courage

It is Not Courageous to Disagree about Theology… Or it Shouldn’t Be

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A few days ago I got involved in a pretty mild disagreement on FB. It was on a Christian topic that I consider fairly minor, and one in which my view is rather middle-of-the-road and nuanced. Despite all of this, at the end of the discussion, the one who had started the conversation remarked positively …

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Courage and Missions

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Back in 2001, after the "9-11" incident, US President George W. Bush described the zealots (or terrorists) who flew the airplanes into the world trade center towers as "cowards." This led to some interesting conversations. After all, people who fought off fear and self-preservation could hardly be called cowardly, right? Part of the problem lay …

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