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Non-fiction
Fiction
Memoirs
Themes
Overview
Listening to Your Life
Faith Despite Doubt
Hope Through Grace
Searching for Meaning
Our Shared Story
The Meaning of 'Christian'
Sinners as Saints
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Overview
Weekly Sermon Illustrations
Quote of the Day
Life's Challenges
Searchers
Pastors
Seminaries
Christians
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Video
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The Buechner Review
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Theology
November 20, 2018
Jaclyn O'Riley
Theology
Jaclyn O'Riley
November 20, 2018

Theology

Jaclyn O'Riley
November 20, 2018

THEOLOGY IS THE STUDY OF GOD and God's ways. For all we know, dung beetles may study us and our ways and call it humanology. If so, we would probably be more touched and amused than irritated. One hopes that God feels likewise.

-Originally published in Wishful Thinking and later in Beyond Words


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