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One of the reasons post-evangelical and post-fundamentalist Christians struggle with talking about sin is because we want to distance ourselves from that puritanical focus, especially when it comes to sex. But in our desire to avoid looking puritanical, we just clam up about sin and holiness.
Reviving Old Scratch
Richard Beck
A Switch-Informed Dietary Plan to Lose Weight
**To Stimulate Fat Burning Diet**
•Low-carb or keto diet preferred, especially for the first month.
•Switch Diet or Mediterranean diet (with more stringent restriction of high-glycemic carbs, salty foods, and umami) may be used as an alternative.
•Drink at least eight glasses of water a day.
•Reduce salt intake to 5–6 grams daily (though you may want to ingest more if you sweat a lot during exercise, and you can be more liberal with salt if you are on a low-carb diet).
•Intermittently fast one or two days a week as tolerated, using a 16:8-hour schedule (optional).
•Minimize or avoid alcohol.
Supplements
•Daily vitamin C supplement of 500 mg or less.
**To Rebuild Your Energy Factories**
Exercise
•One hour, three to four times a week, in Zone 2.
Diet and supplements (optional)
•Dark chocolate or epicatechin.
•Green tea.
Nature Wants Us to Be Fat
Richard Johnson and David Perlmutter
Israel’s long pilgrimage out of domination began at the Exodus from Egypt and was refined by the prophets. Then the prophetic vision of a domain freed from the ravages of war—of swords beaten into plowshares—reached its greatest clarity in Jesus. He gave it profound programmatic shape in his teaching of nonviolence. In his Beatitudes, in his extraordinary concern for the outcasts and marginalized, in his wholly unconventional treatment of women, in his love of children, in his rejection of the belief that high-ranking men are the favorites of God, in his subversive proclamation of a new order in which domination will give way to compassion and communion, Jesus brought to fruition the prophetic longing for the “kingdom of God”—an expression we might paraphrase as “God’s domination-free order.”
The Powers That Be
Walter Wink
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