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“Hosanna! Save Us!”: How We Need to Think About Jesus During Easter

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Note: I wrote this for Easter a couple of weeks ago. Throughout Holy Week this year, I have constantly been thinking about how we think about Jesus. I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church and whenever Palm Sunday and Easter would come around, the sermon would always focus on Jesus’ procession into Jerusalem, Judas’ betrayal, the crucifixion, and culminating with Jesus resurrection on … Read More “Hosanna! Save Us!”: How We Need to Think About Jesus During Easter

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What is Our Obligation to Others?

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No matter what, I always encounter ideas and behaviors that I can’t, for the life of me, wrap my head around. During college, chemistry was the discipline I just couldn’t understand, and my inability to grasp it led me to change my major, moving me towards education, a path I never thought I’d take. It’s one thing to have trouble understanding something like chemistry, … Read More What is Our Obligation to Others?

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“Who touched my garments?”: White Supremacy and the Desire of Absolution

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Each of the synoptic gospels detail Jesus’ raising of Jairus’ daughter after she passes away while Jesus travels to Jairus’ home. On his way to Jairus’ house, a crowd of people swarmed around Jesus and his disciples, hoping to be close to him. In the crowd, a woman who “had had a flow of blood for twelve years” (Mark 5:25) and who had sought … Read More “Who touched my garments?”: White Supremacy and the Desire of Absolution

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Miss Jane Pittman and the Temptation of Christ

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After John the Baptist baptizes Jesus Christ in the gospels, Jesus goes into the desert for forty days and forty nights before beginning his ministry. During that time, Satan tempts Jesus three times with food, display of divination, and dominion over the world. Jesus does not succumb to these temptations, and he rebukes Satan with scripture, ultimately defeating him. As I read through Ernest … Read More Miss Jane Pittman and the Temptation of Christ

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