How Can We Make Sense of God’s “Wrath”? A Parable
© Jorge Royan : http:::www.royan.com.ar : CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Once there was, and once there was not, an artist. He was good — very good. He painted beautiful scenes and portraits. He...
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St. Athanasius Icon, by Ted, cc license We Christians proclaim “the gospel.” The word means “good news.” What happens when what we tell the world sounds old and worn — not “news” at all. Worse still,...
View ArticleMy Problem. Whose Fault? (Heidelberg Catechism, Q. 7)
Apple a day, Patrick McFall, used under cc license In Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story” members of an urban gang consider the source of their problems. They sing it all to their favorite cop,...
View ArticleMirror, Mirror, on the Wall: Heidelberg Catechism and the Law of God
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View ArticleWhere Did That Mess Come From?
In the novel Leaven of Malice Robertson Davies has one character tell another You are in a richly varied mess, true enough. But, much as I like you, I am clear-eyed enough to see that it is the...
View ArticleHow Can We Make Sense of God’s “Wrath”? A Parable
Once there was, and once there was not, an artist. He was good — very good. He painted beautiful scenes and portraits. He had some wit and whimsy about him: Always, whether at the center or somewhere...
View ArticleHow Can the Gospel be Good News Again? St. Athanasius of Alexandria
We Christians proclaim “the gospel.” The word means “good news.” What happens when what we tell the world sounds old and worn — not “news” at all. Worse still, what happens when what we say doesn’t...
View ArticleMy Problem. Whose Fault? (Heidelberg Catechism, Q. 7)
In Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story” members of an urban gang consider the source of their problems. They sing it all to their favorite cop, Officer Krupke. Here’s their first theory. I’ll call it...
View ArticleMirror, Mirror, on the Wall: Heidelberg Catechism and the Law of God
You see someone looking in the mirror. Looking. Looking. What is he thinking? Better still, what are you thinking? Too much attention to his reflection — easy to suppose he likes what he sees. We mock...
View ArticleWhere Did That Mess Come From?
In the novel Leaven of Malice Robertson Davies has one character tell another You are in a richly varied mess, true enough. But, much as I like you, I am clear-eyed enough to see that it is the...
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