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The Resurrection Body
At the Resurrection, when our bodies come out of the ground and are reconstituted and transformed into whatever a spiritual body is so that they are fit to inhabit whatever that new reality is that…
Baptism among the Eastern Orthodox
The Eastern Orthodox Churches regularly baptize infants by immersion—three immersions, to be precise. Why do they do this? Why not sprinkle? And why do it to babies? What do they hope to accomplish…
The Three Amigos and the Christian Life
What is your favorite scene from the classic 1986-film The Three Amigos? It’s an impossible question, because there is a plethora of great scenes. There’s the scene where the Amigos in their…
Did Jesus Pray for His Abusers?
According to the Gospel of Luke, while hanging on the cross, Jesus prayed for the people participating in his execution. Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. (Luke 23:34)Or did he?…
The Bible Against Slavery?
I am no expert on slavery. I am not an ethicist. I consider myself a reasonably intelligent person with an interest in how Christians should think through particular issues. Here I am not trying to…
More Notes on Eugene Boring's Disciples and the Bible
I return now to Eugene Boring’s book Disciples and the Bible (1997), which I recently read and wrote about here. There was so much of interest in this book that I need a second post on it. But go…
Race Relations in Churches of Christ, Part 2
Here is part 1. Several Christian groups in America before the Civil War separated the races into different congregations, white congregations and black congregations. But the Stone-Campbell Movement…
Race Relations in Churches of Christ, Part 1
A few years ago, while writing a series of lessons for Bible classes at the Sherrod Ave. Church of Christ, I drafted an essay on race relations within the Restoration Movement. This is not my area of…
Historical Criticism in the Stone-Campbell Movement
I recently read the book called Disciples and the Bible (1997) by Eugene Boring, owing to my interest in biblical interpretation within the Stone-Campbell Movement. Boring, who died a couple years…
Psalm 2 as Psalm 1: Medieval Jewish Evidence
In this post—the last in the series—we cover the ancient evidence that some ancient people did, indeed, consider Psalm 2 (as we call it) the first psalm. How could they do such a thing? Either…
I Wondered What Sort of a Person She Was
Near the end of her 1971 biographical book, The Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom describes her time in the Ravensbrück concentration camp (northeast Germany, at the red bubble in the map below) with her…
Psalm 2 as Psalm 1: Patristic Evidence
In previous posts in this series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), I have looked at the history of numbering the psalms. The jumping off point has been Acts 13:33, where Psalm 2:7 (as we call it) was cited…
Lessons from a Local Weatherman
Phil Connors started February 2 as a jerk, despised by everyone who knew him, and he ended the day universally beloved, a town hero. What lessons can we learn from the transformation of this local…
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