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Chris Nye

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…

Apr 1, 2023

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

Apr 1, 2023

Chris Nye

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…

Dec 17, 2022

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

Dec 17, 2022

Chris Nye

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…

Dec 11, 2022

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

Dec 11, 2022

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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…

Dec 3, 2022

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

Dec 3, 2022

Chris Nye

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…

Nov 25, 2022

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

Nov 25, 2022

Chris Nye

When faith in God deletes the options

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

Oct 27, 2022

When faith in God deletes the options

Oct 27, 2022

Chris Nye

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…

Apr 14, 2022

Seeing the One who tasted death (Holy Week 2022)

Apr 14, 2022

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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.”

Mar 27, 2022

What kinds of conversations should Christians avoid?

Mar 27, 2022

Chris Nye

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…

Mar 17, 2022

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

Mar 17, 2022

Chris Nye

Reading Widely: the joy of “useless” books

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

Feb 26, 2022

Reading Widely: the joy of “useless” books

Feb 26, 2022

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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