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Cornelius Plantinga
Cornelius Plantinga Jr. is a senior research fellow at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Ministry with the grieving
Twenty of us gathered to talk about having a job that requires us to weep with those who weep.
August 18, 2022
Dying and rising
Years ago, I wrote a book on sin. To estimate its breadth and depth, I studied biblical and theological sources. But as much as the standard sources taught me, I was surprised to discover that I could also learn a lot about sin and grace by reading storytellers, biographers, poets and journalists.
October 7, 2013
Sunday, October 13, 2013: 2 Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c
Back in the mid-1990s I wrote a book on sin. Each of us knows sin experientially, of course, but few of us know it comprehensively even in that way because we are parochial even in our sinning....
October 1, 2013
Desolation and compassion
Our texts du jour include passages from Lamentations and Habakkuk that lament or anticipate the desolation of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. What’s it like when calamity or God’s judgment leaves the land, the houses or the people desolate?
September 30, 2013
Sunday, October 6, 2013: Lamentations 1:1-6; 3:19-26; Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4
In late July the largest city in my state declared bankruptcy. In 1950, Detroit, Michigan, was the fifth largest city in the nation, roughly the same size as Philadelphia and Los Angeles....
September 24, 2013
In the interim: Between two advents
"Now when these things begin to take place, stand up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near" (Luke 21:28)....
December 6, 2000
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