My regular reading practice of the Gospels has been most acutely altered over the past few years as a direct result of what now strikes me as a painfully obvious hermeneutical principle. In sum, I have learned to read all (without exception--I really do mean all) of Jesus' sayings and action
06.6.2011| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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The Christian student group I work with at Harvard is co-sponsoring a reading project this summer along with a humanist student group in which we will, together, work our way through both Richard Dawkins' God Delusions and David Bentley Hart's Atheist Delusions. While we anticipate much lively a
05.9.2011| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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Yesterday was supposed to be a good day. I spent the morning and early afternoon getting everything prepared for the distribution of our newest issue (read it!), and I planned to spend the rest of the day being productive with my thesis, studying for the GRE, and maybe putting together my Halloween
10.29.2010| The Fish Tank | Cameron D. Kirk-Giannini
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“The ‘fundamentalist fallacy’ [is] the conviction that God reveals himself outside of a cultural setting to communicate timeless truths to people who themselves are not influenced by their own cultural setting.” (Richard Lints, The Fabric of Theology, p. 8 ) The gospel is always clothed in
10.25.2010| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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This weekend I had the chance to read Wesley Hill's new book, Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality. Wesley is an old acquaintance of mine from grad school days, and a gifted writer and brilliant thinker (he is currently doing his Ph.D in New Testament at Dur
09.20.2010| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
1 CommentJust a quick word of encouragement to any Christian students at Harvard who may be reading this. Many of us who are a part of the various Christian ministries at Harvard are currently engaged with high intensity and focus on reaching out to the incoming class of freshmen. It's a crazy time--ma
09.1.2010| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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“All the churches of Jesus Christ, scattered in diverse cultures, have been redeemed for God by the blood of the Lamb to form one multicultural community of faith. The ‘blood’ that binds them as brothers and sisters is more precious than the ‘blood,’ the language, the customs, political
08.22.2010| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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