Mar 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
VISIONARY EXPERIENCES & RELIGIOUS TRAUMAAfter several people shared their visionary experiences with me recently, I read a post along the same lines on social media the other day that almost made me reply with charges of blasphemy. I refrained from drafting a...
Feb 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
Reading the Bible a certain way changes the heart.Ephraim Radner Let brotherly love continue. Hebrews 13:1 I’ve been arguing that Hebrews is concerned to show how the sacrifices of Cain and Abel both fail, and how Jesus’ sacrifice, as pure gift,...
Feb 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
When you work closely with those struggling with addiction, universalism increasingly becomes a foregone conclusion. The "repent or perish" motif is cast in a new light. With addicts, the very capacity to repent, to choose, has been infected and...
Feb 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
A prayerful reflection after reading Athanasius' letter to Marcellinus on reading the Psalms, particularly this quote: "… the reader takes all its (the Psalter) words upon his lips as though they were his own…" First,...
Jan 31, 2023 | Uncategorized
CEW Green 1. Whatever else “Christian nationalism” is in theory, in practice, it turns out to be a way of talking about Jesus so that no one, including him, can keep us from doing the evils we think we need to do to save our way of life. So far as I can see, that...
Jan 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
Ken Hood OPERATIONAL REALITIES We all live by, and within, our own realities. Most of the time, we all share these realities. We all act as if the chair we sit in is real, and will hold us. We believe, and in this case, it’s “true” based on empirical...
