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  1. The Small Huge Gift: A Remembrance of Ken Korby

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    03/11/14
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    By Chad Bird
    Though I had studied four prior years at that institution, the one course I had with him shaped my pastoral care more than any other. Ken Korby was this pastor’s name, and when I grew up, I wanted to be just like him.

  2. The Wife Who Gave Up: Mrs. Job’s Beautifully Untrue Words

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    03/05/14
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    Of all the words this woman ever spoke, these alone are chiseled forever into the stone of holy writ, and into the church’s memory. Mrs. Job becomes the patron saint of quick-tongued women.

  3. Smut and Smug: Secret Religious Delight in Society’s Moral Degradation

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    02/24/14
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    I think the chief reason that a faction within me welcomes the disintegration of the American ethos is this: it makes me feel so much better about myself. The smut makes me quite smug.

  4. Look Who I Found in the Grave

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    02/21/14
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    God must kill me. He’s got to slay me, put me six feet under, and shovel dirt atop my corpse. Then, it’s like, “Hey, I finally understand! You’re God and I’m not.

  5. Tripping Helen Keller

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    02/19/14
    1 min read
    By Chad Bird
    Why, given all the things we wish God had told us, but didn’t, does he “waste our time” by stating the patently obvious? Was there, in Moses’ day, an outbreak of violence against the disabled?
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