Nothing Held in Reserve Professor James Atkinson was one of the preeminent interpreters of Martin Luther in the last century. He was also a dear friend with whom I shared many adventures throughout the...
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We’ve spent a long, long time here dealing with spiritual abuse and the trauma that follows. What we haven’t done is provide resources to help people heal. A couple of months ago, I had...
The actual title of the book under review is In Defense of Evangelicalism: A Response to Its Cultured Despisers. I suppose that response would include me, though we can certainly debate how “cultured” I...
Making God Believable When Etty Hillesum, the young Dutch writer who would die at Auschwitz, was preparing to leave the transit camp at Westerbork for the train that would carry her eastward, she scribbled...
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1. The deaths of Wendell Berry and Annie Dillard leave a huge void in our societal consciousness and thinking…though few seem to want to think like these writers invited us to… 2....
Some Things Are Still Not Easy In the early 1990s, I was on the staff of a church in New York City. As part of my pastoral responsibilities, I made pastoral calls at a...
What a strange time we live in. Interest in bible translations is exploding through multiple YouTube outlets and I’m getting all kinds of questions…that you may not like the answers to. I say it...
I was preparing to teach from the Older Testament when I was shaken by what I was reading in the text. I’ve mainly been teaching from the Gospels for the last few years, and...
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