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What Does It Mean to Worship in ‘Spirit and in Truth’?

Each year, the Christian world sees two Easter Sundays, each occasionally overlapping with Jewish Passover. But in Israel-Palestine a small…

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Does It Matter if You Don’t Feel Close to God?

Have you ever said a word over and over until it sounded bizarre to your ears, as if you’re hearing…

ChatGPT Reads the Sermon on the Mount

Reading the Sermon on the Mount with ChatGPT

In the past several months, it has been difficult to avoid discussion of “artificial intelligence” or more particularly ChatGPT and…

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The Key Biblical Principle for Police Reform? Humane Imagination

Being a skinhead in Tulsa Oklahoma meant regular encounters with the police. Back in the 1980s/90s, officers didn’t seem to…

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What Does the Bible Say about Anxiety? Redirecting the Fear of Death

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it…

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Teaching Genesis’ Beautiful Vision in an Incarcerated Context

It’s Tuesday morning. I’m about to head out the door. With a wry smile, I say to my family, “I’m…

A dove representing the holy spirit descends on a revival

A Pentecostal’s Biblical Reflections on the Asbury Revival

As a Pentecostal, I am familiar with revival language. It is common practice in my sphere to seek or pray…

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How the Ten Commandments Shape the Moral Imagination

Late Second Temple and New Testament era debates about divorce often focused on the seemingly strange law discussing divorce in…

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Orality and the Cycle of Revelation: How God and His Image-Bearers Communicate

The world of biblical and mission study realized long ago that the Scriptures were more than a text. The Scriptures…

Sabbath and the feasts

The Sabbath as a Key to Understanding Biblical Law, Part 2

Read part 1, on the ethical purposes of Sabbath. The Sabbath was originally instituted as a sign and a condensed…