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23 Dec
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CHRISTMAS — THE REALLY REAL ONE

  By James Wilson   My very favorite Christmas decoration is a kneeling Santa – red suit and all – at the manger holding Baby Jesus. My favorite thing to do in church on Christmas Eve is to invite Santa ...

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18 Dec
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PROPRIETY VERSUS PROTOCOL REDUX

  By James Wilson   Franklin Graham reports, “For seven years after almost every football game, Coach Joe Kennedy of Bremerton High School in Washington State had gone to the 50-yard line to bow his knee and pray.  This season ...

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13 Dec
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PROPRIETY VERSUS PROTOCOL — LEGALISM VERSUS LIFE

  By James Wilson   One morning some twenty-five years ago I was a young parish priest contemplating the fact a woman in my congregation had missed an appointment in my office.  Ordinary procedure would be to call her later, ...

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06 Dec
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TALL POPPY SYNDROME AND THE GREAT AWAKENING

  By James Wilson   Another of my favorite movies is the Robert Duvall classic, The Apostle.  Duvall modeled his character, “Sonny” Dewey, after his Pentecostal preacher Grandfather.  Sonny is not a good man by any stretch.  He has affairs ...

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01 Dec
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THE CLIMATE CHANGE SKY IS FALLING COURTESY OF NASA

  By James Wilson   Climate change alarmists got a bit of a shock the other day.  NASA issued a report on the Antarctic ice mass.  The purveyors of global warming – now re-named climate change to account for not ...

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