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Ryan Dueck

Ryan Dueck is the pastor of Lethbridge Mennonite Church in Alberta, Canada. He blogs at Rumblings, part of the CCblogs network.

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Prayer in the face of deep pain

It can feel like a feeble offering to pray, but I find it harder not to.
elderly man in chair
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Seeing things that no one else can see

He shows me a ceramic ram, duck, and eagle: “At night I see them wrestling with each other.”
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Talking about religious decline with a Buddhist priest

The local clergy conversation turned to nostalgia about our so-called Christian past. I asked the Buddhist priest next to me what he thought.
Moraine Lake, Alberta, Canada
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Nature is my sanctuary, but Jesus keeps dragging me back to church

I blunder through life in selfish and stupid ways that no mountain scene—however inspiring—can heal, forgive, or reorient.
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Believe in something, says Nike. But what?

Whatever else the Kaepernick ad is, it's a symptom of the confusion that characterizes our cultural moment.
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"I wanna open my heart"

Souls aren’t easy to bare, particularly in jail.
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Same Jesus

My church is part of a group hosting Syrian refugees. When an Orthodox priest from Homs visited, we were reminded how much they've lost—but also of our shared faith.
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Jesus hangs in my Honda

Crucifixes are decidedly un-victorious objects.
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A hell of a thing to believe

Our convictions inevitably shape who we are.
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You only believe in science!

We all bring our values, hopes, and fears to the data that science provides—whether we're religious or not. 

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The single story

We need to sit with stories that resist easy categorization, stories that make us question the official narratives, no matter where we happen to fall in them.
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Hammer my heart

A hazard of being a pastor is that you can speak and write endlessly about God and rarely open yourself to be encountered by God.
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Inshallah

When one of the young Syrian women lit a memorial candle during worship, it represented a great deal of loss.
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Accumulated longings

Like everything else in human experience, sometimes our longings need to be reoriented and redeemed.
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In praise of precise language

Most of us are guilty of using words like progressive and conservative to divide between us and them. Can we do better?
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To the glory of God

In borrowing rituals from religion, Alain de Botton says deeper truth doesn't matter. Is that false?

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