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Antisemitic? Anti-Judaic? Luther, Bonhoeffer, and the Jews
What Does It Mean for Christians to Love Our Jewish Neighbours? Did Dietrich Bonhoeffer help Jews or hate them? This apparently absurd, even offensive, question surfaces in the scholarly literature about Bonhoeffer. And it arose as well in the decision in 2003 by Yad Vashem not to recognize Bonhoeffer among the “righteous among the nations.” Bonhoeffer can provide for us a way into the vexed relationship of Christians and Jews—and a way forward toward better relations. An
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What's Faith Got to Do with It?
How faith “enables” God to work miracles As a child in church, I would puzzle over a curious and recurring phenomenon in the Gospels....
Sep 299 min read
The Sin of Meddling
I have strong views about certain things and so do you. But so what? What is the correct relationship between our convictions and...
Sep 195 min read
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Sometimes You Need a Bowl of Blood
Those of us who have been introduced to that Big Picture cannot any longer live as if we haven’t been.
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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The Myth of "Many Christianities"
The basic premise is what has been championed as the one true expression of Christianity is merely what imperial power has declared.
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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Evangelicalism: What Is It? And Who Cares?
Does the term “evangelical” have any remaining usefulness, whether for historians and sociologists seeking to study a distinct population?
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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Biblical Language as Better than Scientific Terminology
Are there good reasons, therefore, why God inspired the Biblical writers to use metaphors when God can be presumed to understand science?
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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What's Going on with Jamie?
Jamie’s grandmother is concerned about him. Should she be? Jamie is fifteen, a good kid, average grades in school, middle child...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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How to Decide about the Big Questions
There is no magic formula, nor lock-it-down argument, that can give one what is finally available here: not certainty, but assurance.
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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