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A man is holding here a 20 lb lobster. How many lobster rolls would this make? Or how much “chowda”? Read more
A man is holding here a 20 lb lobster. How many lobster rolls would this make? Or how much “chowda”? Read more
Peter, too, talks about the gospel in his first letter. We begin in chapter one: 10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, 11 trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. 12 It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves... Read more
I don’t know why but Google Reader evidently is not working. I have talked with the folks at Beliefnet and the problem evidently is not theirs. BUT … if you subscribe to this it will work on google reader. Google reader won’t read the feedburner feed from beliefnet although other readers do. It is a real puzzle since google now owns feedburner. Read more
We begin a new “friday is for friends” series next week, but today we introduce the theme: happiness. I encourage you to purchase and read David Naugle‘s newest book, Reordered Love, Reordered Lives: Learning the Deep Meaning of Happiness , if you want to enter more completely into this series. The theme of happiness interests me, and so does this new book by Naugle, someone known for his book on Worldview (Worldview: The History of a Concept ). This new... Read more
Barack Obama, as far as I’m concerned, is not off to a good start when it comes to “change” and ending the “politics as usual” he claimed in his campaign. First, on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade he has announced what amounts a contradiction: reduce abortions by supporting and funding abortions. This makes no sense to me. What really makes it difficult morally is that such support is offered on the day he was also announcing — rightly —... Read more
This dwelling, O God, by Thee be blest; and each one who here this night does rest. Read more
I’ve been asked what are the best blogs in biblical studies. What do you think? Provide links if you can. Read more
We are studying on this blog the meaning of the word “gospel” in the Bible. This is actually the 59th post in this series as we “blog” our way through the references. I am doing some writing on the “gospel,” so this is part of my own preparation. Today we turn to the two references to “gospel” in the book of Hebrews, and both are found in chapter four: 1 Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let... Read more
What do you think of this statement? It was said by someone named Basil Willey about Francis Newman (John Henry Newman’s brother) and I found it in the Hempton book in the post we had earlier today. What “story” is it telling? Is it accurate? Does it express the common fear that social justice is where liberals end up? Newman had … a highly developed social conscience — the last phase, no doubt in the evolution of an escaped evangelical. Read more
One of the most famous converts from evangelicalism to Roman Catholicism, someone I write about in Finding Faith, Losing Faith: Stories of Conversion and Apostasy , was John Henry Newman. Today we look at his brother, Francis, who also was an evangelical Christian for a number of years. Francis encountered the gravity of the unbelief of those in other faiths, began to shift some of his evangelical ideas, experienced potent ridicule and rejection, and finally just walked away from the... Read more
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