Lent-erpretative Musings {a theological interlude} {3b}
This is the second part of a post in which I’m talking about some of my guttural objections to some of the ways I’m treating the Bible for my ongoing Lent series, and then my responses to my own...
View ArticleCreation: a suffering world through a suffering Lord | Lent {4}
Lent is a season in which God’s people meditate on the slaying of Jesus on the Cross and all that is within them (and the world) that made that Cross necessary. To that end, we’ve been meditating on...
View ArticleChrist’s Heart Breaking in Us | Lent {5}
Lent is a season in which God’s people meditate on the slaying of Jesus on the Cross and all that is within them (and outside of them) that made that Cross necessary. So to that end, we’ve been doing...
View ArticleThe Slain God of Evolution | Lent {6}
This Lent, we’ve been going through a series meditating on some of the implications of the fact that we worship a God who was “slain before the foundations of the world”–in eternity past–and therefore...
View ArticleLove: The Beginning & End of Divine Suffering | Lent {7a} [GUEST POST]
[Note: Today, we have another post by my good friend Austin Ricketts. I asked for him to write some of his thoughts on the current Lent series I'm doing and this is what he came up with. He's written...
View ArticleLove: The Beginning & End of Divine Suffering | Lent {7b} [GUEST POST]
[Yesterday, my good friend Austin Ricketts kicked off this two-part post, part of my own Lent series, talking about how the "disposition" or "intention" of God is Love, firstly exercised towards God's...
View ArticleNietzsche, the Cross, & the Weight of the World | Lent {8}
If every second of our lives recurs an infinite number of times, we are nailed to eternity as Jesus Christ was nailed to the cross. It is a terrifying prospect. In the world of eternal return the...
View ArticleMaundy Thursday, Narrative & Sacrament | Lent {9}
Today is Maundy Thursday which is the time in the Christian Church calendar where we celebrate the institution of the Lord’s Supper; it also initiates the three Holy Days of Good Friday, Holy...
View ArticleChesterton on the Atheism of God on Good Friday [QUOTE] | Lent {10}
When the world shook and the sun was wiped out of heaven, it was not at the crucifixion, but at the cry from the cross: the cry which confessed that God was forsaken of God. And now let the...
View Articleon Easter: “to Life, a sonnet” [a poem]
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