May 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
When first presented with the universalist hope, many Orthodox and Roman Catholics immediately invoke the authority of the Fifth Ecumenical Council (553), citing the fifteen anti-Origenist anathemas: “Apokatastasis has been dogmatically defined by the Church as...
May 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
In 1546 the English playwright John Heywood coined the phrase ‘There’s none so blind as those who will not see’ and although it is believed to be in reference to Jeremiah 5:21, his words could easily be applied to the story of the blind man in John 9.[1] John is...
Apr 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
The writing of dialogue has at its heart a conflict. At first glance, writing is what dialogue is not and to see the two come together is to encounter a kind of negation.1 In one direction, the instability of speech seems to become fixed in a text. In another, a...
Apr 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
Stanley Hauerwas is Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law at Duke University. Pacifists always bear the burden of proof. They do so because, as attractive as nonviolence may be, most assume that pacifism just will not work. You may want to keep a few...
Apr 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
Most readers will have seen this posted everywhere, but if you haven't take the time to watch it through, it really is a good reminder that many of the Psalms were far more honest than they were liturgical (unless the two can be one!) … they cry out re: our...
Apr 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
The sin my father sinned is mine;the sin my mother sinned is mine;so it is since the world began,so will it be till the world ends. I am Adam, I am Eve,in me there grows the wicked tree,through me the glittering serpent climbs,my teeth break the apple’s rind. My...
