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Christmas - The Perfect Pagan-to-Christian Holiday?

Every Christmas, people come out of the woodwork to proclaim that Christmas is really a pagan holiday. Christmas is clearly and obviously a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. And yet, maybe they have a point?

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The First Extraterrestrial Church and How Hollywood Sci-Fi Explains the Search for Faith with Aliens

In some instances, Hollywood writers have used the search for aliens as a metaphor for the search for faith.  The three most prominent examples help us learn quite a bit about how culture and ourselves view faith: Contact, Signs, and Ad Astra. 

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God Will Use You

I realize that you’re probably expecting to read an uplifting, encouraging post about how God will use you to do great things. And yes, I am generally a very encouraging, uplifting person, so you can be forgiven for making such magnanimous expectations of me.

However, that’s not exactly what I want to talk about today.  You’ll see.

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