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I have of late received e-mails from some who are facing severe doubts about their life and about the Christian faith, and I have no capacity here to dissolve doubts by cooking them dry on some apologetic stove — by and large I don’t think doubts are dissolved so much as they are, by faith,…

Here’s a good question from Miroslav Volf’s book, The End of Memory: “But it is right to insist on the everlasting memory of suffered wrongs?” (Read this.) The question Volf is asking is if it is desirable or inevitable that we will forever remember those who have wronged us and what they have done to…

I get a new pair of “dress” shoes about every five years. I have two kinds: black and brown. My last two pairs of shoes were Born, but my black ones — bought about seven years ago — are now worn out. So, recently we went to my “Born” store. It had been so long…

I really like what I read in Psalm 119:96: “To all perfection I see a limit, but your commands are boundless.”

Dear Holly, Yes, you are right: Evangelicalism is “all over the place.” It includes the old-timers who like hymns and who think tattoos are verboten, and young folks who think grunge music is Spirit-led and who wonder if a one-hour service on Sunday morning is what church is even about. Your concern about what you…

When I got back to my NPU office after Christmas break I had received a bundle of books from publishers who wanted me to blog about their publications. I simply can’t blog about all of them, but I’m going to try doing an occasional “book notes” to mention some of these books and see if…

If God is Olam, forever, and if God’s Word and Faithfulness are also Olam, what are we to do? Attach ourselves to the Olam God whose Word and Faithfulness are Olam. I get attachments in my e-mails quite often; they are along for the ride. If the e-mail comes, they come. Sometimes the e-mail comes…

Last week I took a look at Bennedetta Craveri’s book, The Age of Conversation, and this week I’d like to begin reflecting on conversation in a more explicitly and self-consciously Christian context. Here’s the crucial setting for me: by and large I don’t think evangelical Christians know how to converse.

On the first day of my new class — Women, Mary, and Jesus, we looked at pp. 14-15 of William Webb, Slaves, Women, and Homosexuals. We read these verses and I asked the students to “vote” for each verse: A, B, or C. That is, “A” means “universal and transcultural,” and “B” means “Christians don’t…

The psalmist tells us that the Olam God, the Forever God, the God who is in and of himself the very life that sustains who we are, is “faithful”. The Olam God, therefore, has an Olam Faithfulness. God remains true to God’s very self and character; God’s truth is a faithfulness. Notice these words:
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