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Lighten Up: Um…

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As some of you know, for the last five years I’ve been working on a book addressing the problem of divine violence in the OT. (For alleged violence in the NT, see Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld, Killing Enmity: Violence in the New Testament (Baker Academic, 2011).  It will be a highly academic tome, approximately 600…

Lighten Up: Napoleon Dynamite Dances to Michael W. Smith

This should put a smile on your face. If Napoleon Dynamite cooking it to Emmanuel doesn’t cheer you up, I don’t know what will. Thanks Zack!

Lighten Up: Existential French Cat

Greg used to be into the existentialists quite a bit. Sartre and Camus would love this cat. (Thanks to Rachel Held Evans for the heads-up.)

God is Not…

You just have to love this song by Gungor. Hope it blesses your socks off like it did us. (Thanks Jan Willem!)

Lighten Up: Smile

Go ahead and smile. What do you have to lose? It will make you feel and look better and it’s free. Image by Neal Fowler. Sourced via Flickr.