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Original Sin: What Is the Meaning of Baptism? (2)
How your view of original sin impacts your view of baptism. Does it wash away sins? Adopt you to God's family? Is it required or symbolic?

Elaine R Kelly
Aug 26, 202212 min read
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Original Sin: Are We Born Bad? (1)
Original sin: what does it mean, are we born with sin, guilty or depraved? What does the Bible really say?

Elaine R Kelly
Aug 23, 20229 min read
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Book Review: The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
Evangelicals: the struggle to shape America

Elaine R Kelly
Aug 4, 20225 min read
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Schisms: Divisions in the Christian Family
Five schisms dividing the Christian family: LGBTQ restrictions, Gender-based roles, racial equality, Protestant v Catholic, East v West

Elaine R Kelly
Jul 30, 202215 min read
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10 Racism Arguments Recycled for Sexism
Examine 10 reasons Christians supported slavery, and how they recycled them to support sexism.

Elaine R Kelly
May 31, 202222 min read
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Dirty Laundry in the Church and What to Do About It
Sexual abuse, financial greed, and anti-gay agendas are the dirty laundry of the Christian church. What can we do?

Elaine R Kelly
May 30, 202214 min read
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How is Canada's Black History Record?
Let's not get smug. Canada's Black History shows indentured servitude, prejudice, and discriminatory immigration, education and civil rights.

Elaine R Kelly
Apr 27, 20227 min read
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How is Canada's Record on Racism?
Canada has a record of racism: from the expulsion of Acadians, Francophone rights, Indigenous and Metis peoples, Japanese internment

Elaine R Kelly
Apr 27, 202211 min read
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How can a White Person Feel the Effects of Racism?
How can a member of the white Anglo-Saxon majority write about a biracial character afraid of the effects of racism? I rely on history.

Elaine R Kelly
Apr 25, 20229 min read
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Mary of Clopas and Mary of Nazareth
Who is Mary of Clopas and how is she related to Jesus's mother Mary of Nazareth? Who are Jesus's siblings? Which James is which?

Elaine R Kelly
Dec 18, 202110 min read
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Who was Mary Magdalene? Who was Mary of Bethany?
Who was Mary Magdalene? Not a prostitute. Not a sister of Martha. A disciple and apostle.

Elaine R Kelly
Dec 15, 20217 min read
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Book Review: The Making of Biblical Womanhood
How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth Beth Allison Barr explains how evangelicals defined biblical womanhood

Elaine R Kelly
Nov 19, 20215 min read
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Media Review: What She Said About the Bible (Podcast about female commentators)
Review of What She Said About the Bible, a podcast about women Bible interpreters and teachers.

Elaine R Kelly
Nov 10, 20213 min read
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Pop Quiz: Theology of C.S. Lewis or Dorothy Sayers?
When C S Lewis asks Dorothy Sayers to defend his position that women not preach, she says no. She explains that God empowers women and men.

Elaine R Kelly
Nov 6, 20214 min read
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Book Review: The Female Disciples of Jesus
Author: Paul De Marco Published: 2021 (first edition 2017) 123 pages Genre: Non-fiction, Catholic Saints There is very little online...

Elaine R Kelly
Nov 1, 20213 min read
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Art of Mary of Clopas in Emmaus
Clopas may have been with his wife when the risen Jesus appeared to them on the road to Emmaus. Art impacts our view of who was with Clopas.

Elaine R Kelly
Oct 27, 20214 min read
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Mary of Clopas: The Other Disciple on the Road
Was Mary of Clopas the other disciple with Clopas on the road to Emmaus, one of the first witnesses to the risen Jesus? Does art inform us?

Elaine R Kelly
Oct 21, 20215 min read
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History: Racist Church Histories as Different as Black and White
Christian history shows Racism; Historic records are as different as black and white.

Elaine R Kelly
Oct 16, 20214 min read
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Gatekeepers in Churches (2)
Some gatekeepers in churches stop women in ministry; other men facilitate and actively open the way for woman leaders.

Elaine R Kelly
Oct 14, 20217 min read
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Racism in Christian Churches?
White Evangelical Racism by Anthea Butler

Elaine R Kelly
Oct 11, 20213 min read
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The Christian Church is a Vine with Many Branches
The Christian church is a vine with many branches: contrast Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant (free download)

Elaine R Kelly
Oct 5, 20216 min read
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