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One of the difficulties in blogging through a book is finding a book that can sustain a conversation over a month or more by both advancing an argument and doing so in such a way that variety obtains. Miroslav Volf’s book for me does the former but the themes are not diverse enough, so I…

“How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” (Psalm 119:103)

What are the ingredients of a good conversation? Remember, a conversation is not the same as information-exchange or lecture.

Sometimes I share letters I get from folks, and I just have to tell you about this one. Cp. Patrick Lowthian (pic below) is a chaplain in the US Army and is in Ramadi, Iraq. Well, he reads this blog and I’m honored. His “congregation” is about 1100 servicemen and women. He has been there…

I don’t know an expression any more accurate, so I’ve chosen to say that the one who listens to Torah, who delights in God’s Word, develops morally. So Psalm 119:101-102, 104b:

William Webb finds three criteria that are not conclusive in his book Slaves, Women & Homosexuals. We’ll look at these three criteria today.

If you want to see the days when I was still writing with a Parker T-ball Jotter pen, wearing a wiry mustache and “mod” tinted glasses, and most importantly sporting a curly head of hair, check this out. Rob’s got a beard to die for.

I no longer run, though at one time I was a cross country runner and did plenty of running or playing basketball after my college years. Other than the benefits of running for health, perhaps the most singular benefit to me was the smells and sounds of the environment. The birds, the cicadas, the kids…

The psalmist says that because he muses on the God’s Torah all day long, he has “gained more insight than all his teachers” (119:99).

This is our last post about Richard Dawkins’ book The God Delusion, and we here cover chp. 10: A Much Needed Gap? Here he examines the supposed gap in our hearts/minds that religion contends it fills. He, of course, contends that science fills the gap even better.
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