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Chad Bird
Chad Bird

  1. The Unhappy Creed of the Religion of Acquisition

    book
    04/02/19
    11 mins
    Chad Bird
    The prophets of old were right: we do resemble what we revere. Our anthropology is hijacked by materialism. We become just stuff who consume stuff and hope to have enough stuff to make life worth it.

  2. The God Who Bottles Our Tears

    book
    03/27/19
    8 mins
    Chad Bird
    One of my jobs in high school was helping local ranchers work cattle. We’d vaccinate, cut off horns, castrate, mark their ears, and brand them.

  3. So You Don't Like Your Pastor

    book
    03/14/19
    9 mins
    Chad Bird
    Pastors are built from the same stuff as everyone else. That’s good, and that’s bad.

  4. How Long, O Lord? Climbing 109 Mountains

    book
    03/13/19
    11 mins
    Chad Bird
    I finally climbed all 109 mountains. My journey began out of desperation, fueled by anger, fear, resentment.

  5. The Two Most Important Days In Your Life

    book
    02/21/19
    10 mins
    Chad Bird
    We have at least one thing going for us: we know the first of these two days —our birthday.

  6. Riding Tandem Toward a Flourishing Life

    book
    02/16/19
    10 mins
    Chad Bird
    Our American ethos trumpets the ideal of the rugged individual who doesn’t need anyone else. But that’s not only a lie; it’s also the recipe for disaster.

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

    book
    01/28/19
    12 mins
    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.

  8. A Lament for the Killing of the Unborn

    book
    01/24/19
    3 mins
    Chad Bird
    How long, O Lord, will the voice of children’s blood cry out to You from the ground?

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

    book
    01/17/19
    13 mins
    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.

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

    book
    01/11/19
    11 mins
    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.

  11. God Writes Straight With Crooked Lines

    book
    01/11/19
    6 mins
    Chad Bird
    If I were granted three wishes, one of them would not be to know what the future holds.

  12. What if God Were a Slob Like One of Us?

    book
    12/24/18
    7 mins
    Chad Bird
    With her iPhone, Mary snapped a pic of Jesus in the manger, chose the Clarendon filter, and posted it to her Instagram account.
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