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The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth. Count on it.
I always used to read “The meek shall inherit the earth” (Matthew 5:5) as simply meaning, “It’s a good thing to be a quiet, peaceable person.” I was wrong. It is good to be quiet and peaceable, but there’s way more going on in that verse. First, meek doesn’t mean what it’s often taken to [...]
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Eschatology and Sloppy Work
In light of some recent conversation, I cannot help but wonder whether popular eschatology impacts the attitudes of Christians toward sloppiness. If the Church is a small remnant on the verge of being wiped out, if the Indians surround us on all sides and we’re in for maybe a few decades of dark days ahead [...]
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Thoughts on O’Donovan’s “The Desire of the Nations”
Around 2 a.m. a month ago, in a smoke-filled hookah bar in Orlando, Florida, I found myself engaged in a conversation about religion and politics with a man who spent his career at the intersection between the two (I count his brief stint as a bar-tender as religious/political work in addition to his more overtly [...]
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Reading Proverbs and Job Back to Back
I like the Jewish canonical order of the books of the Hebrew Bible. I just remarked on the contrasts between Ruth and Song, but there’s an equally fascinating tension between the two books preceding Ruth and Song. And this is the tension between Proverbs and Job. Proverbs teaches one how to live ethically, how to [...]
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psalm 2:1-3, english translation and commentary
After church this Sunday, I joined my fellowcollegestudents for the traditional lunch and Bible study. We focused on Psalm 2 and Matthew 28 (they’re an interesting combination). In Psalm 2:1-3, there were some questions raised as to what exactly was being said. Although discussion cleared up the basic issues, there were some more details I [...]
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Christian Theism and the Problem of Evil