In the past few weeks, I’ve been blessed to have had numerous occasions to reflect on the purpose and mission of Christian thought in general and the Ichthus in particular, and I wanted to take some time to share my perspective and engage with the rest of the community. I think the issue of articulating
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“Lord, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered— how fleeting my life is. You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand. My entire lifetime is just a moment to you; at best, each of us is but a breath.” Psalm 39:4-5
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“And he said to me, ‘Son of man, can these bones live?’ And I answered, ‘O Lord God, you know.’” Winter is coming – slipping slowly down from the North to press itself under our doors and through our skins and into our bones. When it reaches the marrow, will it find there a chilled
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(For parts I and II of this series please click here and here) My purpose this week will be purely destructive; I will be considering and rejecting three theories of the atonement in light of the criteria that I developed in my last two posts concerning atonement theology. I hope to treat them fairly, in
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Last week, I set out to achieve a deeper understanding of Jesus on the cross by reflecting on one popular understanding of sin, which I characterized as dispositional because it identifies the sinfulness of actions with God’s dispositions towards them. On a dispositional view of sin, I argued, it makes sense to wonder why God
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When was the last time you loved an idea? Not enjoyed it, not found it pleasant, not thought it nice. Loved it in the most nakedly powerful way possible with the kind of fierceness that defies explanation. When was the last time truth gave you the tingly chills you felt during your first kiss? How
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. By Annie Dillard. Harper’s, 1974. We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence… “Seem like we’re just set down here,” a woman said to me recently, “and don’t nobody know why.” — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek WAKE UP! WAKE UP! Take a
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