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June 22, 2023
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A Proton’s Pilgrimage: A Review of Dawn

by Jason Ho
…cience and faith. As a curious child raised in a culture of suspicion towards science, I think this could have been a resource or a catalyst for conversation that would have kindled my theological imagination and drawn my faith and scientific passions closer together. I hope that it can be that book for today’s curious children (and children at heart).    https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1907169116  ↩ https://biologos.org/resources/adam-and-t…
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July 28, 2021
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Living Well in the Ordinary: A Review of A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

by Sam Ashmore
…minds to settle in the time between? Through fast food, wireless internet, computers in our pockets, social media, and Netflix, we have immediate and instant access to information, entertainment, dopamine hits, and more that support our hurry sickness.2 We have been trained to expect the immediate and the instant, and it has seeped into our theology and understanding of Christian discipleship. The late pastor, author, poet, professor, and loved on…
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August 9, 2017
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Discipleship and Narrative Metaphor

by Donald Roth
…o the day-to-day improvisation of acting out love for God and neighbor. In studying this subject over the past few years, I’ve come to theorize that there are in fact about eight major narrative metaphors when it comes to discipleship: Exiles – Associated strongly with Judah in Babylonian Exile. Pilgrims – Associated with the yearning for and journey to Zion, ideas which are particularly prominent in the Psalms. Messengers – Associated with the pr…
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June 26, 2018
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Crocheting as a Spiritual Discipline

by April Fiet
…anything beyond making long crochet chains, but I always felt a sense of accomplishment that I had made something with my hands. Even though what I had created didn’t serve a functional purpose, I fell in love with crocheting. Crocheting helped me to quiet all the noise inside so that I could focus. Once I could focus, I found it easier to pray and listen. Studies have found that the quieting of distractions and an increase in focus are outcomes o…
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September 1, 2016
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Can Christians Believe in the Big Bang?

by Deborah Haarsma
…d belt. The asteroids are grouped into families that have similar chemical composition and similar orbits. College students with whom I work have programmed computers to run the orbits back in time under the laws of gravity. The students find the same thing that professionals do: asteroids in the same family have orbits that converge at a certain time in the past, millions of years ago. This was the time when two asteroids collided, breaking off m…
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March 8, 2017
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Devotions

Ten Commandments, Take Two

by Wesley Joseph
…hese good voices. But they are no substitute for hearing the Lord’s mercy, compassion, and steadfast love, straight from the source. And, as Christians, we have not just this name, as Moses did, but the fullness of God’s love in Jesus. What we need is not more thoughts about God. Heaven knows we have enough of them. What we need is Jesus: God’s name made visible. Because of Jesus’ love, compassion, and faithfulness to the world and to us, like Mos…
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November 5, 2019
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5 Questions for Christians to Ask about Online Courses & Degrees

by Leah Zuidema
…nd the ways in which it follows or strays from God’s will? How will you be guided to critique or question the ways that each field of study makes idols out of human ideas, products, and activities? In addition to previewing course content, notice how the course or program defines what is “good” for learning. Ask for a preview of the online learning environment—perhaps through a prepared video or by requesting to join a video call where you are all…
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October 25, 2016
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Pay Attention

by Steve Garber
…, before the snow storm came, but each time with a call to the vocation of study at the very center of teaching, hoping for my hearers to learn to pay attention to the truest truths of the universe. To pay attention is the heart of all learning, and all life. To see truthfully is to see honestly, and therefore to see ourselves implicated, for love’s sake, in what we know. That is what my student is still working out, still thinking through, as she…
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September 18, 2015
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Malaria, Mosquitoes, and Special Revelation

by Mark Volkers
…emonade, but it works for me. In my discipline, I don’t study parasites. I study communication techniques and theories, then evaluate them in the light of God’s word. This connection between general revelation and special revelation is so clear, so obvious, so magnificent. Studying the world with only one of these reveals only part of the story; to really understand the world and God, we must acknowledge that God is revealed in multiple ways, and…
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January 6, 2022
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Arguers or Lovers?

by Dave Schelhaas
… 191) But as Yancy writes, Koop won over the gay community “by calling for compassion for the sick among them, and for volunteers to care for them.” (Yancey 202)  “The lesson of Jesus and St. Paul is that lovers, not arguers, are the most effective Christian witnesses.” I mention the response of some evangelical Christians to the AIDS epidemic because it was completely unlike that of Christians during the epidemics that swept through the Roman Emp…
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July 17, 2018
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…Hamartiology (from Greek: ἁμαρτία, hamartia, “missing the mark, error” and -λογια, –logia, “study”), a branch of Christian theology, is the study of sin….
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June 24, 2015
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Models of the Interaction of Science and Religion

by Tony Jelsma
…heology in Christendom. However, John Hedley Brooke’s more recent in-depth study Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives points to a much more complex array of interactions. Religion often had a cordial relationship with science, even stimulating scientific advances. Ian Barbour, in his Religion in an Age of Science, describes four types of interactions between religion and science. These types form a spectrum of increasingly favorable…
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July 26, 2017
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Letters from SPICE

by Ashley Huizinga
…y can be on a clear, cloudless Sunday in April…   Dear self, I hope you’re studying your Dutch well. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study Dutch within a Dutch realm, and you had better be taking advantage of that. You wrote so much in an earlier reflection about desiring to learn Dutch, and after three months here, you should have enough reasons why. Of course, it helps that you look Dutch, so people tend to assume (more often than no…
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July 29, 2022
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Top 5: Science and Religion Resources

by Channon Visscher
…questions for reflection and discussion, making it a good choice for group study. 3. BioLogos, founded by Francis Collins (former director of the Human Genome Project and of the NIH, and author of The Language of God) explores the relationship between faith and science by building on three core values: a commitment to the historical Christian faith, acceptance of the results of modern science, and a desire for gracious dialogue. BioLogos provides…
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November 4, 2021
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“Better Than We Found It”: A Review of Struggling with Evangelicalism

by Justin Bailey
…re, wherein we take responsibility for the wrongs being done in and by our communities.   The final stage is renewal, and Stringer emphasizes that this requires more than “re-branding” or cosmetic change. It requires a willingness to listen to those who have left, a shift in our practices and processes, and a commitment to make it a hospitable space for those who remain, one in which true discipleship can continue.   After reading this book, some…
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December 21, 2015
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Top Influential Books for 2015

by Liz Moss
…e important to me than it did before. However, I have reservations about recommending the book overall since it is basically just a summer read that does not actually offer any answers to the issues. A further disclaimer: The book is marred by some gratuitous (and ridiculous) sex scenes IMHO.” A New Heaven and a New Earth by Richard Middleton “Most exciting? No. Most lyrical prose? No. Most compelling, most exciting? Hardly. Most laborious? Maybe….
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November 17, 2020
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Listening with Love: Recovering the Art of Listening Well

by Erin Olson
…tudies conducted to understand the relationship between listening and good communication found that when communication is good, the brain waves of the listener and the communicator often begin to sync. Using an fMRI, neuroscientist Uri Hasson found that when someone was focused on listening to another research participant describing their favorite show, the two brain wave patterns became almost identical. In a similar study, researchers mapped the…
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November 27, 2018
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What Online Communities Leave Out: Unlikely Friendships

by Matthew Arbo
…ls. Reading each other’s work. Talking together through doctoral seminars, comprehensive exams, and academic despair. We had animated conversations with real disagreements. And yet, his friendship was one of the greatest un-looked-for gifts that I have ever received. I still preach regularly, and I often find myself wondering what he would say about the sermons I preach these days. I definitely miss those half-sheets of paper. And I am thankful th…
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April 22, 2021
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When War is the World: A Review of Missionaries

by Myles Werntz
…lay’s book displays, better understood as a world phenomenon, a globally encompassing force: operators from Columbia using American weaponry firing on Yemeni tribesmen. The individual actors within the novel, attempting to lead moral lives, live into codes, and extricate themselves from the ongoing field of violence, are ultimately caught up in a process they cannot control. These processes and institutions—whether a journalism industry which dema…
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February 1, 2017
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Soccer 2, Saints 0: World Soccer as a Rival to Traditional Religion

by Scott Waalkes
…his young man and others, the “beautiful game” (as soccer is often called) competes fiercely with religious communities for the time and attention of adherents who would rather be fans or direct participants in playful games. Each moment they spend on soccer is a moment spent away from traditional religious activities. This is a problem for Christian communities that cannot be ignored. Detail from t-shirt for sale on e-Bay While Reformed Christian…
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January 21, 2017
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Finding Wonder Woman

by Eliza Cortes Bast
…ttitude. This Sunday, one of our teaching pastors talked about Jesus being completely free from fear. Jesus would echo Psalm 27:3 when he tells the storm to calm down. When he walks through a murderous mob. When he willfully went to the cross. The measured steps of a fearless man. What do he and Wonder Woman know that I have forgotten? What’s the secret? The writer of Psalm 27 spends the next few verses talking about what it’s like to dwell with G…
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February 2, 2021
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Faithfully Reading Scripture With Kids

by Rebekah Earnshaw
…thing for that matter, isn’t an instantaneous process, where the ideas are downloaded into our consciousness in a moment. The Word needs to be heard, understood, remembered, and dwelt upon. It requires access to the Word in a language you know, in a format that is accessible, and in a genre you comprehend. And hearing someone read means being able to hear them, focus on their words, and have words explained if you don’t know what they mean. Our tr…
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October 6, 2017
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History in a Historyless Place    

by John Wilsey
…hile the inmate community of students at Darrington is not independent and free to the extent of the New England communities that Tocqueville visited in the 1830s, the differences between them are mitigated by elements essential to the program. One of those essential elements is the teaching of history. For example, I taught four history courses: Western Civilization, History of Philosophy, American Cultural Issues, and Principles of American Poli…
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May 6, 2015
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Seize the Summer (Part 2)

by Chad Hanson
…them to love God and their neighbor. Research has shown (without an actual study being done) that God is sovereign and we are called to work hard and we are called to rest well in serving Him and others. My grandfather and my father-in-law have repeated to me the expression, “a man on his death bed never says, ‘I should’ve spent more time at work.’” Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 says “Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all. For God will…
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April 6, 2017
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iAt Book Club–The Benedict Option: Optional? and For Whom?

by Erin Olson
…ese Christian enclaves? As Scott said in his piece, Dreher, a supporter of free enterprise, is unlikely to support this challenging and yet seemingly necessary aspect of his suggested communities. Second, is it truly optional? Dreher seems to say we must do this or else, and yet he doesn’t really state the overall goals of this option—what exactly are we hoping to accomplish? Can we ever plan to emerge from this cloistered existence? Dreher says t…
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