Ron Simkins
– November 1, 2014
In order to live with all of the data that comes into our lives, we humans must categorize and organize. We can’t fully avoid it. This involves naming –people, groups,
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Ron Simkins
– October 16, 2014
My connection to church began when my parents went to the church building daily to pray for me when I was still a fetus in my mother’s womb and my
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Ron Simkins
– October 1, 2014
Recent events around the world—including those in Ferguson, MO, just a few miles away from where I sit as I write—underscore what we all should know, but too easily ignore:
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Ron Simkins
– September 11, 2014
When Donna and I decided that it was OK for me to pass up the opportunity to finish a paid for PhD in theology and the assurance of a future
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Ron Simkins
– August 30, 2014
This may seem to be a strange follow up to the first two posts in this “What I have learned” series, which were about Ideals and Reality and Knowledge, but this
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Ron Simkins
– August 20, 2014
As a young pastor/scholar who was fresh off of years of studying theology in seminary, and then philosophy in the University’s PhD program, the goal toward which I was driven
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Ron Simkins
– July 30, 2014
Some people who know me might wish to title this series “HAVE YOU LEARNED ANYTHING AT ALL IN 40 YEARS AS PASTOR OF NCF?” That also would be a fair
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– July 14, 2014
As I have been mentioning in the previous posts in this series, the meanings of the cross in the New Testament writings are many. They form a prism with all
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– June 23, 2014
In the first four posts in this series, I discussed various understandings of the cross and its meanings—as 1) an ugly symbol of power and oppression, 2) a moment of Jesus’
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– June 9, 2014
To give you a refresher on the first few blogs in the series, before starting on part four, here’s what I emphasized: 1 – The cross was a very ugly symbol
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