The divorce courts have it all wrong. “Irreconcilable differences” – like a bad knee or a chronic back – are
part of every good marriage. Successful couples learn to dance in spite of their differences.
If we switch partners we’ll just get ten new areas of disagreement, and sadly,
the most distructive will be about the children from our previous relationships.
Read more at the Smart Marriages website.
One of the very important consequences of insisting on identifying Jesus as the climax of the covenant is that a church that breaks apart along racial and cultural lines is a countersign to the Gospel and an impossibly inadequate medium for the message it carries.
From a paper where I argue that the most popular versions of the story of salvation in both liberal and conservative circles are parts of a larger and more comprehensive biblical story which N.T. Wright’s new reading of Romans helps us recover. The whole paper is on the Northeast SEAD site. [Editor’s note: this link is broken. We apologize for the inconvience.]
What do a twenty six year-old Pentecostal and two children raised outside of religion have in common that would attract them to a high mass? I asked your son what he thought, and he thought it was a lack of asthetics and tradition, but I’m not so sure that’s all of it, and now we’re completely stumped. I was curious to know what you thought?
The Bible is in many ways an alien document. One of the ways in which it appears most alien to many contemporary people is its sense of time. The New Testament in particular can seem bizarre with its apocalyptic and eschatological sense of time. Time is short in the Bible. The world of the supernatural is about to break in upon the natural. The Lord is about to return in power and glory with his angels. At any moment shall come the final cataclysm and the final separation of the righteous from the unrighteous. The whole message of Jesus and the New Testament is “repent, the Kingdom is at hand. Turn to God and accept his mercy and grace while there is yet time, while he delays the final judgment. Act now before it is too late.” Paul urges the members of the church in Corinth, a place notorious for immorality, to hold fast so they shall be found without blame on the day of His coming, which must be nigh.
The Very Rev. Dr. Leander S. Harding 