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August 25, 2007

  No this isn't yet another story about motorcycle clubs doing rides for charity and collecting toys for Santa. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

 But a story in the Toronto Canada newspaper The Globe and Mail caught my eye recently and I wanted to share it as an example of practical application of the Golden Rule. Here are a couple of excerpts:

The sermons steer away from preaching the evils of sin, and instead emphasize the value of fellowship.

"The message of Christ is unconditional love," says Mark Murack, senior pastor at Christian Victory.

There are those in the Golden Rule movement who might find a church called "Christian Victory" a bit uncomfortable. There are those in mainline Christianity who find the idea of worshipping with bikers a bit uncomfortable too. But if the only place that we're willing to apply the Golden Rule is in a contemplative sanctuary free of the rough and tumble of real life then it seems to me that we're not really willing to apply it at all.

 You can find the entire story here, and here's a link to the Kawartha Bikers Church

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