Oct 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
Hope Makes a Difference: Reading for Dominant Themes, Argument, and Theology in Lamentations The five poems of Lamentations are some of the most graphic and evocative passages in the Old Testament, which seem to raise more questions than they answer. Who...
Oct 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
The question of how to relate to society around us has been an enduring challenge for the Church; Docetism and exclusivism have been common postures. It is difficult it seems to relate to the world as God did in loving the world so much that he intervened with...
Oct 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
A screed is a lengthy bit of writing that most readers generally find tedious. And tendentious. But today this has become a common genre among evangelicals of a certain tribe who are keen to shore up Christian support for the state of Israel at all costs. John...
Oct 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
When I was first introduced to the idea of a liminal experience it was in the reading of a book by Richard Rohr. Admittedly, I had to look the word up in the dictionary, but truth be told, I do that a lot anyway. The word liminal means a threshold and...
Sep 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
Red Pill or Blue Pill? How much choice does any individual human actually have? We speak of "free will"—but how much of a choice to accept God's grace does anyone have, given the brainwashing and propaganda to which they are subjected? How...
