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“Casey at the Bat” Revisited
Many years ago when I was teaching at a college in Florida the I was asked by the graduating seniors to be their Commencement Speaker. It was when the Viet Nam war was grinding down, President Nixon was being impeached, and the civil rights movement was in full swing. Difficult times indeed. I chose to…
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Borderland Theology: Who’s In and Who’s Out
The Bible is largely the story of borders. Who is on which side of a given border is either a favored “insider” or disfavored “outsider.” To my way of thinking the Christian Gospel, stressing the idea of the Incarnation, God crossing the border between humanity and divinity, focuses this idea of borders that divide those…