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Article: Living by the word: material things.
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- October 3, 2006
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Sunday, October 15
Mark 10:17-31
ON THE WAY OUT of my city I often pass a large self-storage center. Rows and rows of nondescript units are lined up like barracks at an army base. I often wonder what is inside those storage units: treasured heirlooms, vast collections of National Geographic, broken and tattered belongings that someone doesn't want to give up?
I note the sign saying Self-Storage and wonder: How many selves do we lock up inside with those possessions?
Whether or not we rent a storage unit, we do tend to define ourselves by our belongings. The colonists revolted against the Stamp Act of the British Empire by boycotting ...