Therefore make every effort to come together more frequently to give thanks and glory to God. For when you meet together frequently, the powers of Satan are overthrown and his destructiveness is nullified by the unanimity of your faith. There is nothing better than peace, by which all warfare among those in heaven and those [...]
This letter from Sister Helen Prejean is positively stellar. Writing to the California Department of Corrections on a recent proposal, she made wonderfully and graphically clear how depraved we can be as humans. She urged California to KEEP THE WINDOW OPEN during the administration of the poisonous chemicals and as the person is dying as well [...]
Mohammed Jawad was captured in Kabul and given over to the US forces in 2003. At the time he was around 14 years young. And this is what the US has done to him: What is not in dispute is that he was no older than an adolescent, and that since his capture he has been [...]
Thanks to the help of a brother I’ve been reading through Edward Fudge’s The Fire That Consumes. No, I don’t need help reading; he’s graciously allowed me to borrow the book (he’s also let me borrow the Fudge and William Peterson dialogue, Two Views of Hell: A Biblical & Theological Dialogue). On page 48 I came [...]
Apparently after some carbon dating showed fragments of bones were from the first or second century A.D., Pope Ratzinger declared This seems to confirm the unanimous and uncontested tradition that they are the mortal remains of the Apostle Paul While I’m not all that convinced, I’m also not all that concerned. What truly grasped my attention was [...]
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Clever. But, more importantly, will Christians who currently support either terror or harsh interrogation, especially those who do not consider something like waterboarding torture, take a minute and reflect?
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There is one of those memes going around in which people volunteer a list of books that influenced their readings of the Bible. The rules say that works are not limited to Biblical studies literature, but can include religious works or works of literature.
Wayne Leman, from the absolute must Better Bibles Blog, wrote a great little post on explaining the words in a Bible translation. He communicated perfectly something I’ve been trying—and failing—to get across to folks for years. The issue is whether or not someone has to further explain the meaning of a Bible translation to others. Now, [...]
