Author: Jim Naughton

Our Lord and God

Who protected the hand of the disciple which was not melted

At the time when he approached the fiery side of the Lord?

Who gave it daring and strength to probe

The flaming bone? Certainly the side was examined.

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Co-opting the Church?

Like the author of a piece posted on Ekklesia, I too am finding myself more and more influenced by the anabaptist understandings of non-violence, the

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In the flesh

I myself am convinced and believe that he was in the flesh even after the resurrection. When he came to Peter and his friends, he said to them, “Take hold of me. Touch me, and see that I am not a bodiless ghost.”

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The modest charms of the petit bourgeois

Some great movements have very modest goals. Paul’s mission, King’s movement, the Tunisian and Egyptian insurgencies: each embraced revolutionary change, but eschewed grandiosity. For this reason, perhaps, they reach across the centuries, or half-way across the world, to touch and inspire us

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