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Continue reading →: A comparison of Christian Millennial TeachingsHave you ever been bamboozled by Christian millennial teachings and the jargon that goes along with them? I know I was when I first came across it. All this talk of pre-millennial, post-millennial and amillennial, of pre-tribulation or post-tribulation? I’m not surprised that some Christians say they’re pan-millennial, as in, it will…
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Continue reading →: Unwanted Pregnancies: Can We Have More Christlike Conversations?It’s interesting, and a bit tragic, how the current abortion debate—both within our church and in society—often ends up casting women and children as if they’re on opposing sides. The conversation becomes about rights: the mother’s right to choose versus the foetus’s right to live. But what might be a…
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Continue reading →: Does meditation need to be complex?Francis of Assisi once said, “It is good to read the testimonies of Scripture; it is good to seek the Lord our God in them. As for me, however, I have already made so much of Scripture my own that I have more than enough to meditate on and turn over…
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Continue reading →: Truth is a personNicholas of Serbia once said, Truth is not a thought, not a word, not a relationship between things, not a law. Truth is a Person. It is a Being which exceeds all beings and gives life to all. If you seek truth with love and for the sake of love,…
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Continue reading →: Missing the mark on sinSin is a much misunderstood concept. Often because we Christians explain it badly. We talk about sin as if it’s simply the pursuit of bad things. But it’s not. It’s more often the pursuit of good things as if they’re ultimate things, and in the process missing out on what is truly best in life.…
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Continue reading →: Speaking of Jesus in more Arabic waysI have been finding it interesting to explore how the greetings and affirmations of the New Testament authors sound when phrased in a more Arabic ways. Consider these examples: Salam to all of you who are in al-Masih (1 Peter 5:14) Mercy and salam to you from Allah our Father and…
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Continue reading →: Do we think too oppositionally about Retributive Justice and Restorative Justice?Should we assume that retribution and restoration are opposed concepts? Commonly they are defined thus: retributive justice is a system of criminal justice based on the punishment of offenders rather than on rehabilitation; restorative justice is a system of criminal justice which focuses on the rehabilitation of offenders through reconciliation with victims and…
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Continue reading →: Is Elohim a Plural Word?Many readers of the Bible have noted that the Hebrew word for God, Elohim, is plural given the -im ending and wondered how that squares with strict monotheism. Some, usually with a Christian agenda, have anachronistically read Trinitarianism into it. Some, usually with an counter-Christian agenda, have provocatively read polytheism…
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Continue reading →: Imagining the ExodusValerie Horner sent me this picture which she recently painted for an illustrated book of Bible stories called Holy Fire – Holy Blood. It reminds me that I should say more often that submissions are welcome.
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Continue reading →: We don’t have to know everything about JesusThe scriptures give us only a taste of who Jesus was and what Jesus did. They tell us this explicitly (see John 21:25). There is more than we know. More than we can know. Many have tried to fill in the gaps with wild tales, of an infant Jesus speaking…
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