Hope finds in Christ not only a consolation in suffering, but also the protest of the divine promise against suffering. If Paul calls death the ‘last enemy’ (1 Cor. 15.26), then the oppos… more →
Thy Kingdom Come...Nate wrote 4 days ago: Hope finds in Christ not only a consolation in suffering, but also the protest of the divine promise … more →
Nate wrote 4 weeks ago: … although our genes bias our dispositions and character, the neuronal systems and pathways re … more →
glossaria2 wrote 1 month ago: Ahhh, the Interweb can be a marvelous thing. I’m reading Nicola Cornick’s The Confession … more →
Nate wrote 3 months ago: Last quarter I developed an ordo salutis (order of salvation) for Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen’s Syst … more →
ethneclarke wrote 5 months ago: My late lamented mother was fond of saying, “Everyone has to eat a peck of dirt in their life. … more →
Nate wrote 6 months ago: I recently enrolled in a Systematic Theology class taught by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen. Many of the rea … more →
Nate wrote 6 months ago: … the world is there, being is there, and there we are, there, in the world, being right there … more →
m1e9r8a2 wrote 6 months ago: The subject of death in my twenties seems distant, though not as distant as aging. To tell the truth … more →
m1e9r8a2 wrote 8 months ago: I am as an unlikely reader of a book about Puritans, such as “The Wordy Shipmates“, as S … more →
Nate wrote 9 months ago: In his book The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity, Philip Jenkins charts a major … more →
Nate wrote 9 months ago: Chapter 2 | The Meaning of Home If it is homelessness that dominates the narratives by which we liv … more →
Nate wrote 9 months ago: What will Christians do in this time of swelling affluence and persistent poverty? Will we dare to … more →
Nate wrote 9 months ago: Steven Bouma-Prediger, author of For the Beauty of the Earth, and Brian J. Walsh, co-author of Colo … more →
Nate wrote 10 months ago: I am currently reading a book titled, The Denial of Death written by Ernest Becker. As I was readin … more →
Nate wrote 10 months ago: Awe is a way of being in rapport with the mystery of all reality. The awe that we sense or ought to … more →
Nate wrote 11 months ago: This is a book I am looking forward to. The author of Velvet Elvis and Sex God teams up with fell … more →
Nate wrote 11 months ago: “‘Great art thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is thy power and infinite is … more →
Nate wrote 11 months ago: Life isn’t an accumulation of abstractions such as love and truth, sin and salvation, atonemen … more →
Nate wrote 12 months ago: “… if we look at the various types of human attempts to comprehend the Divine – bo … more →