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The Wind – Stephanie Nolte

Jun 13, 2016 |

My Lord, your servants have turned against those you love. They say cruel and mean words. Do you not hear them? My Lady, I hear the wind howling through the trees. Surely, my Lord, you have not missed their strident tongues lashing those whom they deem offensive? Ah...

Michael Hardin on the Trinity

Jun 11, 2016 |

I have been asked to explain the Trinity. The first thing I would say is that the doctrine of the Trinity is the way the Christian church frames our understanding of God. Notice I used the word ‘frames.’ A frame is the structure but it is not the house. The wisest in...

The Faceless White Giant – Brian Zahnd

Jun 10, 2016 |

  The seeds of an Angry God theology were sown early in my life and they came in the form of cartoons — the infamous gospel tracts by J.T. Chick. With titles like This Was Your Life, Somebody Goofed, The Awful Truth, and Are Roman...

A Conversation between Silences – Jessica Scott

Jun 9, 2016 |

“Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.” (Susan Sontag) Silence is framed; it is always a silence of something. It is absence but it is idiosyncratic absence – absence in a context, absence of a kind of sound, absence in a kind of place, generated,...

The War of the Lamb – Brian Zahnd

May 10, 2016 |

Those who want to hold onto a primitive vision of a violent and retributive God often cite the white horse rider passage from Revelation. They will say something like this: “Jesus came the first time as a lamb, but he’s coming back the second time as a lion.”