Tuesday, October 04, 2022

Oops!

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I forgot about the appendix. There are two good snippets there. Here's the first; the second will appear tomorrow. Enjoy! There is no n...
Monday, October 03, 2022

Free!

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In the biblical story, then, humans are damaged goods. Their nature is good because it was created by God in his own image and likeness with...
Sunday, October 02, 2022

Meritocracy in the university setting

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The Atlantic has an interesting article about the myth of meritocracy in the university setting. It got me to thinking. Read the article to...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

Both and

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Most thoughtful Christians, reflecting on the biblical story, would say that God’s purpose for creation is both to display his glory and t...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Stop it!

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And God intends to liberate the world from this “bondage to decay,” which is evidence of God’s continuing care for creation. In the meantime...
Monday, September 26, 2022

But don't worship it!

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Ethically, then, the point of the creation story of Genesis and the entire Bible’s witness is the call to care for God is good creation whi...
Friday, September 23, 2022

Stop the exploitation!

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God’s assignment of the human to have dominion never hints at permission to exploit, let alone ruin, nature; it remains part of the “image a...
Thursday, September 22, 2022

And the greatest of these is…

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All of this presupposes something that sets biblical-Christian metaphysics radically apart from other belief systems about ultimate reality....
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

So, can God really change his mind?

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Classical Christian theism, born in the cauldron of philosophized Christianity in the second and third centuries in the Roman Empire, reache...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

What do you believe?

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The biblical narrative holds within itself an original, organic, synoptic worldview that answers life’s ultimate questions differently than ...
Monday, September 19, 2022

About that unmoved mover of yours…

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A most interesting narrative in Isaiah is about God’s responsiveness to a king’s plea to extend his life (chapter 38). God sends the prophet...
Friday, September 16, 2022

It's personal!

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The Bible presents a different picture of ultimate reality than extrabiblical, rational, speculative metaphysics. It elevates personhood (a...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

How do you describe ultimate reality?

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I've been reading through Roger Olson's The Essentials of Christian Thought recently. As I said to a friend, it's a good book, ...
Friday, September 09, 2022

Thought for today

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This is the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were proud, had plenty to eat, and enjoyed peace and prosperity; but she didn’t ...
Wednesday, September 07, 2022

Understatement of the year

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Blurb on the back of a massive commentary (700+ pages!) on the Aeneid , book 6 : This is Horsfall's fifth large-scale commentary on t...
Sunday, September 04, 2022

Canoe ride!

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Four weeks ago, Ryan (our son) and I took my 90-year-old dad for a canoe ride down the Red Cedar River again. Unlike last year , when the wa...

Thought for the day

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Your prophets gave you worthless and empty visions. They didn’t reveal your sin so as to prevent your captivity. Instead, they showed you ...
Thursday, September 01, 2022

Thought for the day

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4b “The Lord proclaims: I’m breaking down everything I have built up. I’m digging up that which I have planted—the entire land. 5 You seek g...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Gripe

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Just a comment: I don't like the new layout of WorldCat . I buries all the important information and makes it more difficult to find the...

Sure you will…

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5 Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we fail to do everything that the Lord your God tel...