Randall J. Greene

Grandfathers, Death, and the Character of Life

I was fortunate to have three grandpas in my life. It’s strange having all three of them gone. An entire generation of men in my lineage has passed. I feel the weight of it, as if a mantle has been passed to my father, and the mantle he wore has been passed to me.

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God is Love, Not a Slave Lord

Despite what Paul says, I don’t think God desires us to be slaves of God.

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A Found Poem About Friendship Based on a ChatGPT Poem About Socks

When I asked ChatGPT to write a sonnet about socks, it did! And a surprisingly coherent one, too. But then I wanted to see if I could take what it created and turn it into something new.

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What I Mean When I Say “Something New”

Yesterday I said I was starting something new: a “web log” or “blog” for short. That was a joke, because blogs have been around for a long time now. What I actually mean is that I’m going back to something old.

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Starting Something New

So here I am. It’s the second day of January. I’m starting something new. I’m calling it a “web log” or “blog” for short. (It's okay to laugh, that was a joke.)

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Piracy

A very short story about a man longing to return to his past.

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Self Portrait

A verse reflecting on myself and the things most important to me.

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The One I Have to Tell

I want to tell stories of majesty and grandeur, but it's far more important to me that my stories be honest, true, and those majestic stories aren't mine to share.

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Online Church, A Return to Embodied Faith

When people criticize the idea of online church, they often talk about how online worship services feel disembodied, disconnected from the physical experience of community. Is there another, better way for us to think about online church?

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9. Weaving the Church into the Physical and the Digital

We, the body of Christ, cannot content ourselves to sit back and watch as these new media become the message without us; the world needs God’s story of hope and humanity to be woven into the fabric of its life, everywhere that life is found.

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