Tag Marilynne Robinson

A Proposal For Reading Hebrews' Warning Passages

A Proposal For Reading Hebrews' Warning Passages

I’ve often joked that Hebrews languishes in the New Testament’s wilderness. Compared to the Gospels and Paul’s writings, most Bible Christians make a wide berth of Hebrews, together with the...

Graham Heslop Graham Heslop
26 May 2022
Personal Reflection: Tell Your Children The Truth

Personal Reflection: Tell Your Children The Truth

My wife and I didn’t want children. We weren’t convinced that the God commands married Christian couples to “multiply,” at least not in that way (Genesis 1:28). As people realised...

Graham Heslop Graham Heslop
31 Mar 2022
Doodle: A Cautionary Note On Apologetics

Doodle: A Cautionary Note On Apologetics

In my own life I’ve seen a marked resurgence of apologetics. This was in part a response to the New Atheism, while other factors exceeding my own abilities of analysis...

Graham Heslop Graham Heslop
20 Jan 2022

Doodle: Pharisees versus Prophets

Being passionate about literature I often attempt to pull threads of thought through multiple works. I realise that occasionally the result of this is that my writing resembles little more...

Graham Heslop Graham Heslop
04 Dec 2015

Reflection: Heaven and Friendship

A thought came to me the other day. Large portions of our lives are spent enmeshed with the transient. So much of this life is fading away, receding from view,...

Graham Heslop Graham Heslop
29 Jul 2013

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...

Graham Heslop Graham Heslop
02 Nov 2012