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Because the number who wrote in was overwhelming to the publisher, about 100 per hour, Paraclete is offering another deal for the first two hundred and they will hear directly from Paraclete about that deal. The first fifty will be sent out next week.

The first fifty who e-mail Carol Showalter will get a free copy of my new book, Praying with the Church. Just ask her for a free copy. I just got back to my office from classes, and am told by Paraclete that the fifty books earmarked for readers of this blog are taken. So, thanks…

I’ve suggested that the use of “penal substitution” is being used to carry too much weight in the atonement wars going on today. What I’m arguing for, and will in my book, is that we need a bigger and better category to express what we believe. So, today: Why I think penal substitution as a…

Kris and I, with Laura and Mark, went to Willow’s Easter service last night. Splendid intergenerational music and remindings of the resurrection.

Tomorrow morning, at 6:00am, Paraclete will announce at this site a special deal on my new book, Praying with the Church (the “candle book”). “Deal” as in “free.”

Because of chest pain and a very high blood pressure reading on Friday morning, Bob went to the emergency room at Mercy Medical in Canton. From there he was life-flighted to the Cleveland Clinic, where doctors determined that there was no immediate emergency and focused on reducing his blood pressure.

If you are looking for a book that explains in clear and simple prose what postmodernity is all about, and how it intersects between theology and philosophy, I’ve got the book for you: John Caputo’s Philosophy and Theology caught me off guard. Tim West, at Abingdon, sent me this book with a note that he…

In light of my work on a book on atonement and then, on top of that, the CT article I wandered into, it might be good to look at some terms. My big point in many of my comments over the last few months is this: penal substitution, as a categorical theory for atonement, is…

If truth be told, many of us are not happy about our prayer life — its intensity, its duration, its stimulation, its discipline, its effectiveness — and the list could go on. There are statistics out there even about how little time pastors spend in prayer. One of those secret topics among Christians is the…

The Lutheran church across the street from us has an annual Easter weekend custom: on Good Friday they station Roman soldiers outside the grave, they stay there all weekend, and then on Easter morning Jesus gets up from the grave and walks outside. Here are the soldiers guarding the tomb on Holy Saturday.
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