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Benjamin Dueholm

Benjamin J. Dueholm is pastor of Messiah Lutheran Church in Wauconda, Illinois, and author of Sacred Signposts: Words, Water, and Other Acts of Resistance, forthcoming from Eerdmans.

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The Leadership Crisis at the End of the Megachurch Era

The megachurch movement flourished for decades on the premise that the infinitely flexible style could be separated from the enduring substance. Apparently, they were wrong.
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Oedipus Complexity: Is it Enough to Fire Men Accused of Sexual Misconduct?

Stories of sexual abuse and misconduct are, of course, nothing new. The matter changes. So do the punishments and the means of restoration or reconciliation. When Oedipus, the legendary Greek king…
Benjamin Dueholm
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Why Must Jesus Contain Gluten?

The genius of the eucharist, in strictly human terms, is in its simplicity: bread and wine, the everyday foods of Mediterranean antiquity, enter the ritual process to become body and blood. The…
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