In this post and the next, I want to think through some of the potential strengths and weaknesses that would result from intentionally seeking to produce “bilin...
Mark 14:55-58—“Now the chief priests and the whole Council were seeking testimony against Jesus to put him to death, but they found none. For many bore false w...
“My whole hope is in Your exceeding great mercy and that alone. Grant what You command, and command whatever You want.” (Augustine, Confessions, 10.29)
The Ch...
For the most recent post in this ongoing series, see here.
JOSEPH
In this post, I wanted to highlight a couple specific strands of what the NT teaches about s...
John Updike was one of the great American novelists of the past half century and one of only three writers to ever receive two Pulitzer prizes during his lifeti...
“You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every g...
“There are times in life when the question of knowing if one can think differently than one thinks, and perceive differently than one sees, is absolutely necess...
Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998) deserves to be near the top of any serious list of gifted contemporary theologians. After serving for decades as a missionary in I...
Jesus’ insistence that “the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45, Matthew 20:28) is a peren...
For the first two parts in this series, see here and here.
NICK
“God’s gracious giving to faith belongs to the context of baptism, even as God’s gracious gi...
