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Reflection: God's Grace in Gilead and Reductionism
Last month I found a second hand copy of Marilynne Robinson’s 2004 novel, Gilead. The book is a collection of moving memoirs (for lack of a better word) written by...
The Agency of Definitive Sanctification: Father, Son and Holy Spirit
The unfortunate result of writing a thesis is that you end up with a lot of material but not enough space for its inclusion. There is a great tragedy in...
Mark's Ending: From Apologetics to Application
At Friday youth we have been doing a course called Christianity Explored (the youth version though - called Soul). The course runs for seven weeks with each week teaching something...
Doodle: Was Calvin a Calvinist?
I can still remember it as if it were yesterday, though it was something like 7 years ago. I had been a Christian for around a year and my growth...
Biblical Historicity and African Folklore
One fairly appealing argument for the historicity of Old Testament narratives is that Jesus/Paul/Some-author viewed treated them as historical. By this, we mean that they make arguments from them. One...
John Owen and Asceticism
I think most Christians have at some point wondered what to make of Paul’s words in 1 Corinthians 9:27. For Paul seems to affirm a form of ascetic practise...
Samuel Rutherford on Divine Providence
“When the Lord’s blessed will bloweth across your desires, it is best, in humility, to strike sail to him, and to be willing to be led any way our Lord...
The Jokes We Tell
A friend recently returned my copy of Yann Martel’s Beatrice and Virgil. Though it has been almost 2 years since I read it, holding the book in my hands resurrected...
