Theology

Theology

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Inventing God

Nov 04, 2010 by Steve Woolley

I have a friend who washes windows for a living.  I don't know what he used to do.  According to him he raised horses, made a lot of money, owned everything he wanted and drank heavily.  He more or less stumbled into Jesus through an introduction from another friend of mine, an Adventist pastor.  Now he and Jesus are tight, he's been sober for five or six years, and he

Books

Liberalism Without Illusions

Renewing an American Christian Tradition

By Christopher H. Evans

A review of Liberalism Without Illusions

Nov 03, 2010 reviewed by Randall Balmer

While I was writing this review, I came across a statement from the managing editor of Christianity Today, who wrote that his magazine offers "independent journalism about an important niche of American Chris­tianity." He went on to say, "We are the 'new mainline,' a principal voice of Prot­estant Christianity in America."

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Spiritual hiccups: Cast into hell

Oct 28, 2010 by James Sledge

I readily admit that readings such as today's gospel make me a bit uncomfortable.  When Jesus starts talking about being "cast into hell" or how "whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven," I struggle to fit this in with other images of Jesus eating with tax collectors and sinners, with his call to love and pray for your enemies.  Perhaps, as a modern "liber

Features

God is love

A basic Christian claim

Oct 27, 2010 by Miroslav Volf

What do Christians mean when they say that God is love? How do we answer that question in a dialogue between Muslims and Christians, which is to say, in a tension-filled intellectual space of wrestling to understand and articulate our similarities and differences with regard to what it means to love God and neighbor?

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Commending the Faith

Oct 26, 2010 by Ryan Dueck

This past Saturday, I attended John Stackhouse’s lectures on faith, reason, and the new atheism down at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre.  Evidently, there is still some interest in this topic as the event sold out—even in hyper-secular Nanaimo!