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Jesus Shows Us God's Love
Part 2 of the "What is the Gospel?" series. Jesus has come to earth to show us God's love. What is God's love? And what about God's...
Norman Viss
Jun 21 min read
What is the Gospel? Part 1
I am currently doing a 6-part sermon series entitled "What is the Gospel?" Many of us who identify as Christians have a unclear view of...
Norman Viss
May 281 min read
When Life Gets Tough, We Get Tougher
How will we as communities and individuals respond to the deconstruction or collapse of our environment and perhaps our civilization? How...
Norman Viss
Mar 143 min read
We Are Not the First Ones Here
“The world has been ending off and on for almost all of recorded history….” Mathematician and collapsologist B. Sidney Smith, in How to...
Norman Viss
Mar 33 min read
Maybe It's Good, Maybe It's Not
We left you last chapter with a question: you may wonder if McLaren is too negative about Western civilization. Is there nothing that...
Norman Viss
Feb 263 min read
Don't Read the Bible (in the Same Old Way)
Brian McLaren has tried to show us that it is hard if not impossible for us to remove the rose-colored glasses through which we view our...
Norman Viss
Feb 214 min read
First Nations Christmas Story (11)
The First Nations Version New Testament was birthed out of a desire to provide an English Bible that connects, in a culturally relevant...
Norman Viss
Dec 27, 20242 min read
First Nations Christmas Story (10)
The First Nations Version New Testament was birthed out of a desire to provide an English Bible that connects, in a culturally relevant...
Norman Viss
Dec 26, 20242 min read
First Nations Christmas Story (8)
The First Nations Version New Testament was birthed out of a desire to provide an English Bible that connects, in a culturally relevant...
Norman Viss
Dec 24, 20243 min read
First Nations Christmas Story (7)
The First Nations Version New Testament was birthed out of a desire to provide an English Bible that connects, in a culturally relevant...
Norman Viss
Dec 23, 20242 min read
First Nations Christmas Story (6)
The First Nations Version New Testament was birthed out of a desire to provide an English Bible that connects, in a culturally relevant...
Norman Viss
Dec 22, 20243 min read
First Nations Christmas Story (5)
The First Nations Version New Testament was birthed out of a desire to provide an English Bible that connects, in a culturally relevant...
Norman Viss
Dec 21, 20243 min read
First Nations Christmas Story (4)
The First Nations Version New Testament was birthed out of a desire to provide an English Bible that connects, in a culturally relevant...
Norman Viss
Dec 20, 20242 min read
First Nations Christmas Story (3)
The First Nations Version New Testament was birthed out of a desire to provide an English Bible that connects, in a culturally relevant...
Norman Viss
Dec 19, 20242 min read
First Nations Christmas Story (2)
The First Nations Version New Testament was birthed out of a desire to provide an English Bible that connects, in a culturally relevant...
Norman Viss
Dec 18, 20243 min read
Enoughness
Potawatomi botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass , did an interview recently with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee of Emergence...
Norman Viss
Dec 4, 20243 min read
Once the World Was Perfect
Once the world was perfect, and we were happy in that world. Then we took it for granted. Discontent began a small rumble in the earthly...
Norman Viss
Nov 30, 20241 min read
People Who Have Survived Collapse
Today is Native American Heritage Day, at (almost) the end of Native American Heritage Month. We do not (yet) do it well enough, but we...
Norman Viss
Nov 29, 20243 min read
Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address
It's American Thanksgiving today. Here is a Thanksgiving Address of the Haudenosaunee First Nation People. Haudenosaunee is the common...
Norman Viss
Nov 28, 20246 min read
Windigo
From Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer "The Windigo is the legendary monster of our Anishinaabe people, the villain of a tale...
Norman Viss
Nov 27, 20242 min read
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