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Putting the Pieces Together In the first post in this series, I offered the analogy of a jigsaw puzzle for interpretation. Each element...

Recap and Introduction In this series, we are attempting to understand the difficult text of 1 Corinthians 11:7-12 – a text relevant to...

Recap and Introduction In this series, we are attempting to understand the difficult text of 1 Corinthians 11:7-12 – a text relevant to...

Recap and Introduction In this series, we are attempting to understand the difficult text of 1 Corinthians 11:7-12 – a text relevant to...

Recap and Introduction In this series, we are attempting to understand the difficult text of 1 Corinthians 11:7-12 – a text relevant to...

“You’re capitulating to culture!” This was the view of the pastor who sat across from me. We were meeting for coffee in my seminary...

20 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed...

A Scripture passage that has always had great meaning to me and greatly shaped how I understand Christian vocation is Mark’s account of...

Reading this devotional and listen to this song, "Messiah (Anna's Song)," by Shane and Angela Wiebe There was also a prophet, Anna the...

46 And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, 47 and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, 48 for he has looked with favour on the...

In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was...

We invite you to listen to this song, "Elizabeth: Visitation Song," by Kathryn Wenr In the days of King Herod of Judea, there was a...

Listen to this song, "Rahab," by Rhonda Louise as you read this reflection. An account of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of...

One day I was going through boxes at my mother’s house. There were so many boxes because my mother was the kind of person that never...

I have spoken before that our knowledge of God is always interrelated with our relationships, that our beliefs about God are always...

Then, the cancer returned. It was everywhere. My mother made a bunch of trips to see different new age doctors to pursue radical...

As I said previously, how we talk about God is bound up with how we relate to others. For many, their view of God as Father is effected...

One time I was camping on the shore of Lake Erie with a group of friends for our mutual friend's (Craig) bachelor party. Of the group of...

Things started getting tense. Dr. Webb and one other professor, a woman who had recently been ordained in another denomination, quite...

One reason I asked so many hard questions in Dr. Webb’s class--and this is something I look for in my own classes I teach now--is the...