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  1. Forgiving Others Is Not All About You: When Forgiveness Mutates into Self-Help

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    01/28/19
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    Just as we believe ourselves to be forgiven because God sees us in Christ, so to forgive others is to see them as God sees them in Christ. To forgive, in other words, is to put God’s eyes in our eyes and our eyes in God’s eyes.

  2. A Lament for the Killing of the Unborn

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    01/24/19
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    How long, O Lord, will the voice of children’s blood cry out to You from the ground?

  3. Is it OK for a Former Adult Film Producer to Serve Holy Communion?

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    01/17/19
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    Some things, once they are deemed disgusting or contaminated, permanently carry that quality with them. These things are even thought to be “contagious,” negatively affecting whatever they come into contact with.

  4. Slaying Monsters in Church: Why Baptism Should be Rated R for Violence

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    01/11/19
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    When people are baptized, time is transcended. They go back to the Jordan and the Jordan comes forward to them. In a single splash, or a single dunk, they enter the war.

  5. My Favorite 12 1/2 Books of This Year

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    12/17/18
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    My nonfiction reads took me into Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, and various varieties of Protestantism. Some of my favorites didn’t fall into neat and tidy categories, such as Jordan Peterson and Richard Selzer. It was difficult to narrow the list down, but here are my 12 1/2 favorites of the year.
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