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on that mennonite confession, article 2

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1639, 27th March, 2011
Article two is here. Thoughts below the jump. The second article is titled ‘Jesus Christ,’ and begins with some pretty standard theological talk about Jesus Christ. But then comes something very mennonite, something I have not yet seen in any sort of creed or confession or catechism: In his suffering, he loved his enemies and [...]
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christmas meditation

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1830, 25th December, 2010
I just finished a walk around the outskirts of the little town of St. Marys, and greatly enjoyed the fact that we have a white Christmas in this part of the world. You may rightly say that a white Christmas is merely some snow falling on the ground, and you may be right, but the [...]
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purchase 1

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1753, 30th August, 2010
Earlier today, I went to our little local used bookstore, Canalside Books, and purchased the red-letter edition of Mark by the Jesus Seminar Related Posts:the owens-campbell debatea post on the historical jesus . . .
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a nail from jesus’ crucifixion?

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1709, 3rd March, 2010
Claude Marriotini reports it. The story goes thusly:  The Knights Templars, a secretive religious association of the Middle Ages, are said to have had a fort.  In that fort, a nail has recently been found.  What is amazing about this is that the nail is believed to date from the 1st century A.D., the same [...]
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a post on the historical jesus . . .

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2125, 24th February, 2010
can be found here.  Its central thesis is that those who reject the gospels as historical sources do so based on bad assumptions. Related Posts:Confederacy Discussion (3): Seder, Slavery, and the Biblepurchase 1build your own jesus?The canon
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build your own jesus?

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1743, 28th December, 2009
There are, in a variety of places, little “Build a Bear” enterprises. They work like this: You go to a vender of build-a-bears, and the vender shows you an assortment of bear parts, which you are then free to put together into your own bear, and you pay the vender for this. That’s right. The [...]
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