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I’ve done my best to avoid bringing back my class, “Women, Mary and Jesus,” onto this blog but I’ve read a book recently — and we discussed it in class — that I think you should know about: John Stackhouse, Finally Feminist. There are a few very big ideas at work in this book that…

As many of you know, we’re doing a series with Dan de Roulet, an English professor, about reading fiction and we’re using “Revelation” by Flannery O’Connor to get to some of the issues in reading fiction. So, here’s Dan response to my last post:

I sometimes am told that the Jesus Creed is simple, or soft-headed and mushy, or light. I know whereof such persons speak because I once thought that way. But, the more I study the New Testament and the more I examine my own life and how to live, the more convinced I am that the…

A reader writes me this set of questions and I’ve cobbled together two exchanges with him about this issue… but the words are his:

The fundamental problem in discerning how we look at “work” is dualism — the one that contends what really matters is the spiritual while the material is not as important. Darrell Cosden, in The Heavenly Good of Earthly Work, turns in chp 2 to evangelicalism’s view of work — and it all leads him to…

We are looking forward to Pentecost in this series, and to do that we are blogging through 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed as a form of preparation. Today I want to suggest four principles of a person who practices Pentecost and we find these in Matthew 7:1-12.

We’ve seen some old (bird) friends, some new ones … we’ve seen lots of birds this Spring:

Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to know your Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life, that we may steadfastly follow his steps in the way that leads to eternal life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with…

44 years ago in Chicago, the Beatles:

We continue our series on Klyne Snodgrass, Stories with Intent, and today we look at the parable of the wheat and weeds.
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