Tag: Church
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Pro Wrestling Goes to Church Fin.
This is the final portion of a reflection on pro-wrestling and church. One aspect of pro wrestling that is a natural outflow of the scope of the performance art itself is personal critique. There is so much to learn in pro wrestling, from ring psychology, to safely executing moves, to gauging fan reaction, to self-promotion,…
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Pro Wrestling Goes to Church Part III
This is part III of a reflection on Pro Wrestling and Church and perhaps will be the hardest to articulate. Part I covered Faith and Truth, Part II covered Execution/Liturgy and Etiquette. This part will deal more with behind the curtain circumstances than the performance although they certainly are correlated. It is more about the…
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Pro Wrestling Goes to Church Part II
This is Part II of a reflection on Pro-Wrestling and Church. Part I focussed on Faith and Truth. This part focuses on the practical aspects of community. Execution/Liturgy I went to an Ash Wednesday Service recently at a Catholic Church. I like Ash Wednesday and as I grow older the more I like traditions. I…
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Pro-Wrestling Goes to Church Part I
I’ve wanted to write something like this for a decade and maybe I have. It’s hard to keep track of 323 blog entries. But I’ve wanted to write about how the world of professional wrestling internal and external operate as an at times ideal version on the Church. Now I know what you might be…
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Allegations, Abuse and the Unaccountable Part II
Light Sometimes I think people have this unfounded notion that darkness is brought to light by some sort of magic. That we are traipsing through a field and accidentally stumble upon a massive scandal or hidden sin or devilish plot as if it was just hiding out in some pleasant place waiting to be discovered.…
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Sing with what we Got: Habakkuk 3
What we have in Christ is so much more than what we’ve lost. This might be hard to believe, harder to feel, and sometimes we are not at all able to see it, perhaps even moreso now in this season. Which means now more than ever remembering and hearing what God has done is so…
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We are not in the Wind, We are the Wind
What an interesting time for an interesting and interested God. A God that is not idle but who remains an eternal intercessor in Christ. A God that we may feel is silent about circumstance yet still resounds about who He is. John 3:8 reads “The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound…
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Love Theories II: Coming and Going
It is leaving Heaven It is finding luxury in sharing the suffering of the dirty and fallen in order to make them clean and whole again it is eyes fixed while awaiting the gaze of the beloved it is resolute patience, incomparable kindness, it is the greatest guard it is the hopeful guardian it is…
The Reconstructed 