Comment on Gitmo Barfab’s blog: it reminds me of the first time I got on Facebook and happened to quote something from the magazine ‘Rolling Stone.’ A guy from my previous church immediately jumped on

‘But for Paul, the problem is not that individuals and communities sin and need forgiveness; in fact, Israel had a system of atonement to deal with sins. The problem is that sin and its henchman

Nevertheless, we’re likely to enter a period in which the U.S. is simply one of a number of economic powers that challenge one another for dominance. Paul Kennedy, a historian of the rise and fall

As to systemic evil, I’m referring to something like the Guinea Worm parasite, or maybe a case where an earthquake happens in a poor area, and all of the dwellings cave in, crushing the residents.

Abraham is a dubious model of religious identity, for most of us do not directly hear God’s voice. If faith’s dependence on ritual tradition is forgotten, there is a danger of overvaluing individual inwardness. Much

Cary – What Luther’s theology offers on this score is an account of the knowledge of God that does not depend on the notion of a power or faculty of intellectual vision, and that therefore