nbsp I have just finished reading N T Wright rsquo s book Justification God 39 s Plan amp Paul 39 s Vision in which a teacher of mine is skewered Stephen Westerholm another one comes off in a fairly positive light E P Sanders and another is once cited kindly Ben F Meyer I mention th
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Hitchcock, Hebrews, and Suffering
Working with Alfred Hitchcock Ingrid Bergman once asked for additional insight into the character that she was to play nbsp What was her motivation nbsp Hitchcock answered her but the actress didn rsquo t see the question as settled nbsp ldquo I don rsquo t feel like that I don rsquo t thi
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Speaking in Tongues, Now and Then
nbsp The New York Times Sunday Review published a short article by T M Luhrmann a professor of anthropology on speaking in tongues titled Why We Speak in Tongues nbsp August 17 2013 In the article Luhrmann who has published a book length study on glossolalia ldquo speaking in tongues
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Faith or Family?
In the wee hours of a Sunday morning May of 1654 Jacob Rolandus climbed out a bedroom window of his family rsquo s home nbsp He was fleeing the rectory and the family of his father a Reformed Dutch Minister so that he could freely practice his new religion Catholicism nbsp In the 17th cen
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Death’s Dread and the Assumption
Sometimes a mystery of faith is best approached through its opposite In pondering the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary consider what it means for us to die Of course for all of us on this side of the grave death is the unexplored country Near death experiences do not count Pondering dea
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The First Letter of Paul to the Thessalonians Online Commentary (11)
The study of 1 Thessalonians offered here is in the form of a traditional commentary although secondary scholarship is engaged more intermittently than would be the case in a commentary published in a regular print series This is the eighth entry in the online commentary on 1 Thessalonians In the
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Surprise Me
St Anthony of the Desert the fourth century Egyptian founder of monasticism had a conversion experience unlikely to occur today at least not easily What happened He found himself surprised at Mass After the death of his parents Anthony was questioning the course of his life wondering what t
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The First Letter of Paul to the Thessalonians Online Commentary (10)
The study of 1 Thessalonians offered here is in the form of a traditional commentary although secondary scholarship is engaged more intermittently than would be the case in a commentary published in a regular print series This is the eighth entry in the online commentary on 1 Thessalonians In the
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Learning to Dive
nbsp One burden of adulthood is the speed at which times flies nbsp A blessing of childhood is time rsquo s lethargy nbsp When school dismisses for the year adults take some comfort in knowing that the summer holidays will pass quickly nbsp Children in contrast enter the reign of summer
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The First Letter of Paul to the Thessalonians Online Commentary (9)
nbsp The study of 1 Thessalonians offered here is in the form of a traditional commentary although secondary scholarship is engaged more intermittently than would be the case in a commentary published in a regular print series This is the eighth entry in the online commentary on 1 Thessalonians