Bible
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The Evolution of Adam
It’s hard to know where to begin writing about the experience of reading The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say About Human Origins. It isn’t a book about evolution,…
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The Evolution of Adam: Mid-book Reflections
This book is really excavating some of my assumptions about Scripture. It lays out in detail the things that don’t really add up — the differences between Genesis 1 and 2, the various…
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Re-post 2: Thoughts on Judges
This post was originally published January 9, 2008. It’s one of the posts that were lost in the transition between domain names and blog hosts, but are backed up in a Word file…
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Re-post 1: Rereading Samson
During Advent, I’m going to be writing fewer new posts and re-posting some old ones from my earliest days as a blogger. There were many posts that didn’t make it into this blog…
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A Year of Biblical Womanhood
By now you’ll have heard about Rachel Held Evans’ A Year of Biblical Womanhood. It represents the author’s attempt to take literally every instruction to women in the Bible, in both Old and…
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Two views
From A Year of Biblical Womanhood, by Rachel Held Evans: Tamar joins a storied troupe of crafty and courageous women who used trickery, sexuality, and manipulation to work the patriarchal system to which…
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Open-handed
One day, something fell from the sky. Xi had never seen anything like this in his life. It looked like water, but it was harder than anything else in the world. He wondered…
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Telling God’s Story
Telling God’s Story: A Parent’s Guide to Teaching the Bible has been food for the soul. I first saw the book over at the Peace Hill Press site and felt mildly curious. Now…
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The Birds Our Teachers
“Many Christians have a good doctrine of redemption, but need a better doctrine of creation,” writes John Stott at the start of The Birds Our Teachers. Because God reveals himself in his works,…
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Faces
To say he had a face is to say that like the rest of us he had many faces as the writers of the Old Testament knew who used the Hebrew word almost…