I turned on the radio as I was driving home this afternoon. The soothing sounds of NPR are a constant companion in my little old Civic. This particular afternoon, Talk of the Nation was broadcasting live from Fort Hood in Texas. It was the memorial service at the site of a tragic shooting just days ago where 13 people were killed and 43 were wounded.

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This past year I finally got around to finishing Brian McLaren's New Kind of Christian trilogy, which ends with the book aptly named The Last Word and the Word After That... The third book turns it's focus to the afterlife, specifically to the current Christian understanding of both hell and resurrection.

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