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This is an unpublished essay I wrote a few years back and want to post it this and next week while we are in Italy wandering from one Tuscan village to another. Enjoy… Never Alone “…the truth that reading and its necessary twin, writing,constitute not merely an ability but a power.”— Jacques Barzun “Every old…

James explores healing through prayer and anointing. What he urges, and here we clearly hear resonances of faith in James 1:6-8, is to pray in faith — to pray trusting that God can heal and that God will heal. Here are James’ words: And the prayer offered in faith will make them well; the Lord…

Another post from my colleague, Mary Veeneman, based on a book by Harper and Metzger. Let’s hear what you are thinking about church discipline. When I was in college, I had a professor who had previously been a full-time pastor.  In a discussion on ecclesiology one day in class, the subject of church discipline came…

A wonderful German scholar once said, “The first and the final thought of Jesus was thought about God.” (I translate.) That theologian, Adolf Schlatter, gets it exactly right: what you think of God matters most. So I want to begin a new series and we’ll use James Bryan Smith, The Good and Beautiful God: Falling…

Here’s the link to Tom Wright’s response to the The Episcopal Church (USA). Our friend David Neff, at Christianity Today, an Anglican, is saddened (by the American Episcopal’s church decision)[saw this on his twitter account]. Any thoughts here?

Have you heard of the cackle around Derek Webb’s new album (Stockholm Syndrome) and the lyrics especially in “What Matters Most–re”? What are you hearing? Too explicit? Too sensitive? Too harsh? Sure, but needed?

We are looking at the last passage in James, James 5:13-20. James urges the messianic community to summon elders to pray over the sick: Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. The word “sick”…

RJS points us here to a major, major issue in the relationship of science and faith: the necessary distinction between “evidence” or “facts” and “interpretation.” Not all, including Richard Dawkins, are careful to distinguish the two and this post helps us. Where are you seeing this problem today? Chapter 13 of Alister McGrath’s book A…

Joan Ball has a wonderful story to tell, and her memoir (Flirting with Faith) will be published early in 2010 — but she is writing a guest blog for us today on what it was like to enter the Christian world and discover the “Christian woman.” Joan blogs at Beliefnet at Flirting with Faith. This…

Regina Benjamin lives out her creed (and read the whole article). President Obama announced Monday his choice for surgeon general — Dr. Regina Benjamin, a 52-year-old family practice doctor who has spent most of her career tending to the needs of poor patients in a Gulf Coast clinic in Alabama. “When people couldn’t pay, she…
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