Just 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–many large group events, too many...
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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 allegiances, or economic interests that may...
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“Accordingly, two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self. The former, in a word, glories in itself, the latter in the Lord. For the one seeks glory from...
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Next time out I plan on starting up a new series on Christian Unity that I’m looking forward to with much anticipation. Until then, here’s a prayer from Sir Francis Drake for those of us who too naturally stumble into the unbelieving stance of being “at ease in Zion” (Amos 6:1). May God awaken His people through...
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In Marilynne Robinson’s unforgettable novel Gilead, the congregationalist (and unapologetically Calvinist/Barthian!) pastor John Ames pens this provocative reflection to his young son about trying to “defend the faith.” It is meant to be read–like all of his letters–when the young lad has grown up, presumably long after Ames has died: “Well, I have had a certain amount of experience...
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*Note: I’ll return next time to my series about “The Promises and Perils of Bilingual Christians” Who needs to bother about dry, dusty theology? “Many things can be meant by the word ‘God.’ For this reason, there are many kinds of theologies. There is no man who does not have his own god or...
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“…the relation of the to the truth of his story still remains a far more passionate and definite one than is Homer’s relation. The Biblical narrator was obliged to write exactly what his belief in the truth of the tradition…demanded of him—in either case, his freedom in creative or representative imagination was...
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