Me and Cousin It, who’s trying to string me along….. Read more
Me and Cousin It, who’s trying to string me along….. Read more
Sing along now— ‘Jesus loves the little T Rex/ Even though they’re now extinct/ thank God they’re dead and gone/ in the grave where they belong/ and Jesus never held one– at least I think.’ Read more
It’s been quite a while since Francis Collins, the former head of the NIH and one of the Founder of Biologos, published his NY Times bestseller, The Language of God. His new book is something entirely different. It is an attempt by a scientist who is also a very committed Christian to suggest ways America could get beyond the divisiveness, vitriol, cynicism about our basic institutions, hatred, and violence that has all been tearing at the very fabric of... Read more
One of my favorite British artists of the 80s. Read more
What a long strange trip it has been (and still is), to quote the Grateful Dead. My career as a teacher began B.C.– before cellphone, and even before personal computer. My poor wife had to type my doctoral dissertation (twice) on our IBM Selectric 3 typewriter, using a Hebrew ball, and a Greek ball, and a symbol ball etc. Many years later when we were living in Ashland Ohio, our daughter who was in grade school, and had begun to... Read more
PART FOUR: THE TREATMENT OF THE NT Let it first be said that Richard’s treatment of the Gospels does indeed place the emphasis in the right place in terms of God’s mercy and compassion as expressed in Christ’s various teachings and healings and acts of fellowship. The problem with these chapters is the important topics they fail to address. Examples are Christ’s views on marriage, sexual sin, the eternal consequences for rejecting the Good News, and Christ’s call of sinners... Read more
PART THREE: OT Teaching on Sexual Matters Chris’s presentation of the relevant OT evidence is well written and addresses an audience of clergy and laity. It is not meant to be a scholarly monograph, but it is to be taken seriously as written by two seasoned scholars who have read the academic discussion and reflected deeply on the relevant matter. His treatment of Ezekiel 20.25-26 is another example of his suggestion that God changed his mind. Chris thinks this... Read more
PART TWO: God’s Unchanging Nature At the very outset of the book Chris presents us with an example from 1 Sam. 15.11-35, Exhibit A that God does indeed change his mind, and that Samuel is telling a lie when in 1 Sam. 15.29 the prophet says the following, “The Glory of Israel does not recant or change his mind! He is not mortal that he should change his mind!” Now this theme is not an isolated statement found only in... Read more
C.B. Hays and R.B Hays, The Widening of God’s Mercy (Yale U. Press, 2024) 272 pages PART ONE: Preliminary Thoughts In the beginning of The Widening of God’s Mercy we are given personal stories from both Chris and his father Richard Hays as to why there has been a change in mind about what we should think about the Scriptures’ prohibitions of same sexual activity (in both the OT and NT), as well as related matters, such as gay... Read more
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