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Apr 1, 2023

You Would Not Have Understood the Crucifixion Had You Seen It (Because No One Did)

Growing up around the Catholic Church, we kids would walk the Stations of the Cross each year. At one Catholic school I attended, we even…

You Would Not Have Understood the Crucifixion Had You Seen It (Because No One Did)

Chris Nye

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Dec 17, 2022

The Genesis of Christmas: uprooting the family tree (Fourth Sunday of Advent, 2022)

If you can name your great-great grandparents, you are a part of a tiny minority of Americans. If you can go beyond that, you are in a…

The Genesis of Christmas: uprooting the family tree (Fourth Sunday of Advent, 2022)

Chris Nye

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Dec 11, 2022

The Genesis of Christmas, part 3: how to vindicate your life (Third Sunday of Advent, 2022)

“For the Germans…I think that remorse is pointless…I feel sure that they won’t earn the forgiveness they could get form the world just by…

The Genesis of Christmas, part 3: how to vindicate your life (Third Sunday of Advent, 2022)

Chris Nye

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Dec 3, 2022

The Genesis of Christmas, part 2: Conception, birth, and pain (Second Sunday of Advent 2022)

You cannot talk about Christmas without talking about childbirth. For as much as Christians have tried to clean up the Nativity, it’s…

The Genesis of Christmas, part 2: Conception, birth, and pain (Second Sunday of Advent 2022)

Chris Nye

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Nov 25, 2022

The Genesis of Christmas, part 1: Hosting God (First Sunday of Advent 2022)

“Sometimes it has seemed to me that life is a series of punishments for such moments of unawareness, that one forges one’s own destiny by…

The Genesis of Christmas, part 1: Hosting God (First Sunday of Advent 2022)

Chris Nye

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Oct 27, 2022

When faith in God deletes the options

“Where are we going up?” -Deuteronomy 1:28

When faith in God deletes the options

Chris Nye

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Apr 14, 2022

Seeing the One who tasted death (Holy Week 2022)

“Holy Week” refers to the seven days before Easter Sunday. The word “holy” literally means “set apart.” For centuries, Christians all over…

Seeing the One who tasted death (Holy Week 2022)

Chris Nye

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Mar 27, 2022

What kinds of conversations should Christians avoid?

“You cannot go on ‘seeing through’ things for ever…To ‘see through’ all things is the same as not to see.”

What kinds of conversations should Christians avoid?

Chris Nye

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Mar 17, 2022

What does it mean that God is our “refuge?”

There is nowhere God is not. His presence permeates this world in a way that none of us can grasp, even as the finer theological minds have…

What does it mean that God is our “refuge?”

Chris Nye

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Feb 26, 2022

Reading Widely: the joy of “useless” books

“I can’t use anything from it,” he said.

Reading Widely: the joy of “useless” books

Chris Nye

Chris Nye

Living in Portland, Oregon with my wife and son. Doctoral candidate at Duke University. Author of a few books: chrisnye.co/books

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