Download or Stream this Episode Some people just don’t know what to do with Paul. Browsing a bookstore will reveal attempts to pit him against Jesus, to make him the real genius behind the traditions[…]
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Tag: New Testament
Christian Humanist Profiles 127: The New Testament
Download or Stream this Episode Most of us Christians in the twenty-first century have a strong sense, even if not a theoretical account, that the New Testament is at once the legislator of our imaginations[…]
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Christian Humanist Profiles 107: A Man Attested by God
Download this Episode At the core of the Christian’s confession we encounter the claim “Jesus is Lord.” It’s a bold claim, perhaps even confrontational, and for the faithful it’s the beginning of a conversation, not[…]
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Christian Humanist Profiles 95: The Day the Revolution Began
Download this Episode In one of The Wire’s many memorable scenes, the older and more seasoned Vinson has a caution for the young gangster Marlo Stanfield as he aspires to dominance in the Baltimore drug-war:[…]
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Christian Humanist Profiles 86: Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels
Download or Stream this Episode To speak the Bible does not always mean citations with footnotes, does not always come with a declaration that “This is what MY Bible says!” Those with ears to hear[…]
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Christian Humanist Profiles 65: The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus
Download or Stream this Episode To the one who writes “Jesus is the answer” on the youth-room poster or on the bathroom stall, I reply, “Jesus is the question.” And of course, true to Biblical[…]
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Christian Humanist Profiles 48: A Fellowship of Differents
Every generation of the faithful must learn and relearn the vocabularies and symbols and narratives of the faith, and theology in an era of hyper-literacy demands different disciplines than theology did in moments when so[…]
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Christian Humanist Profiles 43: Paul and the Trinity
There’s a story that everyone knows about the doctrine of the Trinity: there was this teacher in first-century Judea, Jesus of Nazareth, who preached the coming kingdom of God and ended up getting executed. Then[…]
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Christian Humanist Profiles 33: Simply Good News by N.T. Wright
The good news of Jesus, Messiah, Son of God. Thus begins the gospel according to Mark, and the notion of gospel, proclamation, announcement has been at the core of Christian confession for as long as[…]
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Eternal Possibilities: A Review of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory for Brazos Bloggers
Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory: A Protestant View of the Cosmic Drama By Jerry L. Walls 219 pp. Brazos Press. $19.99 Written theology, in my own experience with the faith, serves me differently during different seasons[…]
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