Easter Lily— A Theological Review: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD Easter Lily— A Theological Review Few bands in the modern era have sustained the kind of artistic and moral conversation that U2 has carried across decades. From their earliest work, there has been an...

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Has the Gospel Changed?: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD Has the Gospel Changed? From the Nineteenth Century to Now The question is often put too bluntly, as though one could draw a straight line from the upheavals of the nineteenth century to the…

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Watch Your Language: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD Watch Your Language We have arrived at a moment in which language is no longer governed by discipline but by appetite. Public speech, once shaped—however imperfectly—by a sense of occasion and…

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Speaking the Truth in a Time of Lies: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD Speaking the Truth in a Time of Lies There are moments in history when the greatest moral crisis is not war itself, but the lies that accompany it. War has always produced deception.

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Faithfulness Within a Flawed Democracy: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD Faithfulness Within a Flawed Democracy We are told, with increasing urgency, that we live in apocalyptic times. Every election is decisive. Every controversy is civilizational.

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Things I Think… I think we need to accept the possibility that Trump “wanting to get to heaven” may be a work of the Spirit and pray accordingly… 2. Ironically, if Trump truly converted and started behaving as a…

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“Take out your Bibles and turn to Mark, chapter 16…”: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD “Take out your Bibles and turn to Mark, chapter 16…” Or The Creative Tension of Textual Criticism and Faithful Reading There are times, particularly for those of us who live in the long corridor…

This is so very good...learning how to read the Bible with the church through the ages...resolving the issue of the ending of the book of Mark. www.phoenixpreacher.com/take-out-you...

Things I Think… More often than not these days, I find myself feeling stressed and melancholy irregardless of any personal circumstances. I’m not eating well or sleeping well…at times it seems as if darkness will be…

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“Welcoming The Stranger”: KevinH This past Sunday, my church sent off an immigrant family who had become very near and dear to our church family over the past year. The family is moving to another state to be with friends from their…

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Why Robert Alter Matters : Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD Why Robert Alter Matters There are figures in the world of biblical studies who slip past most people unnoticed—known mostly within the quiet halls of the academy or the narrow corridors of clergy.

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Nuking For Jesus Dispensationalism is the undergirding theology under American civil religion. For the sake of this discussion, lets define our term. Dispensationalism is a theological system in Christian thought that...

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How Do We Deal With Michael Tait?: KevinH “What if I stumble, what if I fall? What if I lose my step and make fools of us all?” These are poignant lyrics from DC Talk’s hit song, “What If I Stumble”, from its epic Jesus Freak album released…

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