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Continue reading →: Who Is the “Holy Spirit” in the Qur’an?Something I have noticed from studying the Qur’an is that the Holy Spirit is never clearly defined. Several passages place the Holy Spirit in connection with Jesus and with revelation, but the text never pauses to explain what or who the Holy Spirit is. Though I have often heard Muslims…
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Continue reading →: Who Does Silence Serve?Few things sound more spiritual than a call for silence. Church leaders often speak about guarding unity, avoiding gossip, extending grace, refusing to slander others, and choosing not to fuel conflict. All of these are genuine biblical concerns. Yet there is a profound difference between silence that serves truth and…
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Continue reading →: Why the SBC Is Wrong About Women in MinistryFollowing is commentary from Peter R. Green that I am reposting here with permission. I’m a retired Baptist pastor from Australia. The first thing I’d like to say is that the SBC is not a member of the Baptist World Alliance, as it broke away a number of years ago.…
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Continue reading →: Unmasking the Abusive Tactics of Authoritarian PastorsAuthoritarian pastors rarely present themselves as controlling. More often, they appear as defenders of truth and guardians of the church. This is what makes spiritual abuse difficult to recognise: it usually hides inside the language of faithfulness, unity, and authority. The key issue is not whether pastors lead, but whether…
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Continue reading →: Stop Weaponising 1 Peter 3:7 Against WomenEarlier today I saw someone using 1 Peter 3:7 as a clobber verse against women, repeating the phrase “weaker vessel” for emphasis, but that’s a misuse of the text. When Peter calls wives the “weaker vessel,” he’s not saying women are less valuable, less intelligent, or spiritually inferior. In the…
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Continue reading →: Should Science Override the Bible When They Disagree?The idea that science simply overrides the Bible wherever they appear to conflict often rests on a misclassification of what the Bible is actually doing. Many supposed conflicts are not discoveries of error, but results of reading ancient texts as though they were attempting to answer modern scientific questions in…
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Continue reading →: Sacred Play: What Christians Can Learn from Discordian HumorThere’s something disarming about a tradition that refuses to take itself too seriously. Discordianism, shaped by texts like the Principia Discordia, doesn’t just question authority, it laughs at it. It pokes fun at systems, mocks certainty, and reminds us how quickly spiritual insights can become inflated to absurd extremes. At…
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Continue reading →: Is the King James Version the Only Perfect Word of God?If the King James Version is the only perfectly preserved word of God, then Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jesus, the apostles, Timothy, and every Christian who lived before 1611 lacked access to the perfectly preserved word of God. Yet Scripture never suggests any gap in God’s care for his people…
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Continue reading →: Is the Bible God’s Word or Human Words?Scripture is both divinely inspired and human authored. I find it essential we hold these two truths together. When we focus only on the divine side, we can forget that God spoke through real people in real places and times. We may overlook the language, culture, and circumstances that shaped…
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Continue reading →: How Authoritative Is The Bible for Christians Today?One of the recurring issues in contemporary Christianity is not simply whether the Bible should be read literally or non-literally, but how Scripture relates to other sources of authority when Christians disagree about what it means and how it should be applied. Many of the most contested debates in the…
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