Walking through The Apocalypse, translating from the Greek as a continuing student of the language and the Scriptures, and bringing up points I find interesting and significant along the way.
I have been participating in the women’s Bible studies that our church has been offering over the past couple of years. I have really enjoyed those studies and God has always used them to richly bless me and lead me into a deeper understanding of Himself. During this last study that we just completed we [...]
The advocate of war cannot say there is no other recourse before weighing nonviolent alternatives. That’s from chapter 7 of John Howard Yoder’s The War of the Lamb: The Ethics of Nonviolence and Peacemaking, edited by Glen Stassen, Mark Thiessen Nation, and Matt Hamsher. Not that the quotation is a summary of the book itself, [...]
If you are not sure what’s going on with this uproar over Glenn Beck, that’s alright. He likes to cause a ruckus. But this one is fairly problematic. For some quick catch up, check out this intro by Eugene Cho, then Glenn Beck’s response, and then the invite from Jim Wallis for a conversation. In [...]
Words matter. What we say, what we recite, what we repeat. All of it matters. And the meaning behind the words we say matter just the same. For this reason a Christian must never deny Jesus, especially to save their own life. Many have said they would lie in the face of a life or [...]
Founding director of Christian Peacemaker Teams, Gene Stoltzfus, took the next journey in life on Wednesday, and gets to hear those glorious words, “Well done.” I can’t say any words of quality here. I will simply point you to some articles and posts in memoriam. I did want to give you the last two paragraphs [...]
I started reading Light Force: A Stirring Account of the Church Caught in the Middle East Crossfire, by Brother Andrew and Al Janssen. I read Secret Believers earlier last year, adored that wonderful text, and wanted to continue my engrossing studies into Christian interaction with Islam by reading through this one. I find myself walking [...]
In the first day of the class on Islam, I brought up the idea that Christianity is nonviolent. I was challenged with the story of Jesus cleansing the temple. Once again, this story was lofted to legendary heights, unknown even to the gospel writers, depicting a wrathful Jesus embodying the righteous violence that we disciples [...]
But she pointed to him [Isa]. They said: How should we speak to one who was a child in the cradle? He said: Surely I am a servant of Allah; He has given me the Book and made me a prophet; And He has made me blessed wherever I may be, and He has enjoined [...]
First in a series of quotations from the Qur'an as I prep each week for the Sunday morning Islam classes.
