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And this debt was so great that, while none but man must solve the debt, none but God was able to do it; so that he who does it must be both God and man. And hence arises a necessity that God should take man into unity with his own person; so that [...]

So I had a chat with a friend in college this week, a grown woman and mother of one who is a future theologian of some repute for our denomination who has read these books back to back and seen the movie four times. As someone who benefitted adolescent hormonal attraction by marrying his lady [...]

Trouble The Water is a stunning documentary. Watching it one night this week it brought me to tears on many occassions. As they say about this Oscar nominated film, it’s not about a hurricane, it’s about America.
Kimberly Rivers Roberts is the star of this movie. She is an aspiring rapper, a recovering drug dealer [...]

One of the stories in the Old Testament that anger people the most today is that of Abraham and Isaac. God comes to Abe and says, “Abe, take Isaac up that holy hill and kill him seven kinds of dead on the altar up there. Do it for me, Abe”. Abe goes and does it. [...]

In Luke 4 Jesus announces his mission to his home congregation. He goes to the synagogue and is handed a scroll to read. It is the Prophet Isaiah, chapter 61. He reads the passage out and then sits, indicating in the norms of the day that he is ready to teach. He says simply, “Today [...]

To even reject Christianity with integrity demands historical empathy for the context of the Gospels. Without awareness of what they say, you can’t disagree. And without a grasp of where they were said, so to speak, you can’t even begin to know what they say. So three historical vignettes involving Pontius Pilate over the next [...]

One of the weirder developments in the Great Repression that we are beginning to feel can be found in Dubai. My sister spent two years out there in the mid-90’s when the boom just started to expand the ex-pat population. Now there are 800,000 natives and 3.4 million people living in a state that doesn’t [...]

This is an indulgent, morally repugnant, far-fetched and fantastical tale of the relational “healing” between a capitalist millionaire son and his dying “sensual socialist” rogue of a father which has a quiet undertone of racism but at least manages to glorify infidelity, addiction, corruption, greed, assisted suicide and ultimately even cancer.
Your Correspondent, Has a [...]

If evangelical theology slips into a sub-Biblical emphasis on the power of the individual and liberal theology rests on a sub-Biblical preoccupation with society, perhaps in the earliest declaration of faith we have a way out of these black-and-white dichotomies we are addicted to.
Only an individual can declare, “Christ is Lord!” No society or community [...]

A year ago he was acclaimed as the greatest tennis player in history and perhaps along with Michael Johnson and Michael Jordan, the greatest athelete of our age.
Now Nadal is better.
Except instead of international tennis, the game I am playing is being the best regular blogger who sometimes eats dinner at the Cardboard [...]