David Miller’s ‘Taxonomies of Deity’ – Response by Brad Jersak
Biblical Scholar, David Miller has weighed in on the question about whether Christians and Muslims worship the same Allah. The following is his introduction with a link to the full article, followed by a response from Brad Jersak. Taxonomies of Deity: Do Christians...
Thomas Merton and Henry Miller: Our Faces – Ron Dart
Yes, I have often thought of the resemblance between our faces. I had not associated Genet with it, not knowing what he looks like. I suppose the person I most resemble, usually, is Picasso. That’s what everybody says. Still I think it is a distinction to look like...
Thomas Merton and William Everson: Wild Birds – Ron Dart
William Everson as Grim Reaper - photo: JANJAAP DEKKER Outside of Father Merton—he (REF Larsson) is perhaps the best contemporary US Catholic poet. (Letter from Kenneth Rexroth to Thomas Merton, August 28 1950) William Everson is probably the most...
The Shepherd’s Joy – Luke 2 for Christmas 2015 – Henry Smidstra
Peace was proclaimed in Holland in 1945 the year I was just learning to walk. V-day is still celebrated there yearly as the, bevrijding, the liberation, from Nazi occupation and the enmity of war. My brothers remember the day and said everybody went “crazy” with joy....
The Light / Darkness Motif: A Response to Brad Jersak’s ‘Hell is a Kingdom’ — Andrew Klager
Brad, I’m tracking with you on this unifying motif of “kingdom,” but I think—riffing off the “dominion of darkness” section in your article—that the pervasive darkness / Light motif throughout the Scriptures (esp. John) accompanies the presence of these two kingdoms...
Hell is a Kingdom: the Missing Motif Reconstructed – Brad Jersak
Abstract This article encourages readers to press past recent debates on the nature of eschatological hell to examine those NT uses of gehenna and hades that cannot be interpreted as afterlife states. The author demonstrates how these texts—Jms. 3:6, Matt. 23:15 and...
Gregory of Nyssa on the Death of Egypt’s Firstborn
St. Gregory of Nyssa contends that the slaughter of Egypt’s firstborn, if taken literally, would be morally intolerable. He therefore interprets the killing of the firstborn as the Christian’s killing of personal vices early, before they can blossom into serious sins....
Review of ‘From Suffering to Solidarity’ (ed. Andrew Klager) — by Ron Dart
Andrew Klager, ed., From Suffering to Solidarity: The Historical Seeds of Mennonite Interreligious, Interethnic, and International Peacebuilding (Pickwick Publications, 2015) The publication of From Suffering to Solidarity is a must read plough to...
Jesus Never Rained Down Fire – Judas Isaac
For in your sight the entire cosmos is a turn of the scale, and as a dewdrop in the dawn alighting on the earth. But you have compassion over all, because you can do all, and you overlook the sins of human beings with a view to their repentance. For you love all that...
Evelyn Underhill: Mysticism and Religion – by Ron Dart
If Thomas Merton (1915-1968) can be legitimately viewed as the most prominent Christian mystic of the latter half of the 20th century, then Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) can be seen as the leading Christian mystic of the first half of the 20th century. Merton and...