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A tender heart toward sinners
I grew up in a fundamentalist church that championed the phrase, “Love the sinner, hate the sin.” Although it’s arguably biblically based, there are potential problems with this platitude. First, our sense of sin tends to be distorted by our biases. The church I grew up in viewed sin through the lens of personal purity…
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Small-town suicide
I wrote this story two years ago, and since then another suicide has occurred and been mourned, in a neighbouring community. That man I did know. To remember both of these men who left behind wives, children, even grandchildren, today I publish it. Let’s learn how to handle mental illness in the church in a…
