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    “Get Over Your Selfie”

    We’ve all taken them – “selfies”- fast photos usually of ourselves with others taken with our cell phones quickly at some event or activity that we want to text to those who were not present… a seemingly harmless action. A recent Opinion Editorial in the August 19 issue of the Wall Street Journal takes “selfies” to a new level offering a compelling perspective of the “all-me-all-the-time” immersion into the current cultural trend. This trend is epitomized by Kim Kardashian’s New Selfie Book “Selfish” which offers a 352 page collection of pictures she took of herself. The op ed article “Get Over Your Selfie” reminds us that the alternatives to living…

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    The Polarities of Advent

    The polarities of good and evil erupt in the larger metanarrative of salvation history – creation, fall, redemption, new creation. The birth of Christ, a hugely joyous occasion to celebrate, is followed by His death and suffering – the whole reason the baby is born. Other polarities surface: the cost of leaving heaven and entering fallen earth; Mary’s delight of being chosen by God to carry His Son and a tarnished reputation; the worship of the Christ Child by the humble shepherds and wise men from the East and the wailing of the murder of all baby boys under 2 years old as ordered by the paranoid and evil king…