Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey
[An unpublished novel by me treats of violence and nonviolence as a major theme with hell a subtheme. It is entitled Chrysalis Crucible, and tells the story of a young evangelist’s coming of age on the short-term mission field in West Berlin. Following are...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey
I spent two years as a short-term evangelist in West Berlin from 1972-1974. These were momentous years internationally: the Vietnam War, the 1972 Munich Olympics slaughter (about which Steven Spielberg is currently doing a movie), the Canadians beat the Russians in...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey
I live in a world of functional atheists and operative “echthrosists.” What is the latter you ask? In a moment. The secular world has no functional place for God. Not even a “god of the gaps” is needed any longer in our superabundantly technologized world, though...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey
I received this by e-mail yesterday. The connections made between cancer and our modern addictions, in particular oil, are very disturbing. Please read on, and pursue the links at the bottom. One is a very interesting web page by the doctor behind the article posted...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey, Book Reviews
(Charles K. Bellinger, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, 157 pages.)Review by Wayne Northey. This gem is to theology what a Rolls Royce engine is to automobiles. One reviewer says, “It is no small achievement to write a theological book that is both first-rate...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Wayne Northey, Book Reviews
Review by Wayne Northey. (Hans Boersma, Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2004, 288 pages.) This is an impressive book. First, Dr. Boersma is a meticulous theologian. Second, his sources are wide-ranging and carefully considered (this based on my limited awareness of...