Podcast: Theology and Identity
The person that I see myself to be is shaped by what I believe about God. The person that I see God to be is shaped by what I believe about myself. Theology and Identity are deeply intertwined. As an historical theologian, I want to know what people at different moments in history have believed about the God of the Bible and what they have believed about themselves. We here explore questions such as: What kind of personal and community identity does the Bible foster? And, How have deficiencies in our own self-identity tainted our understanding of God?
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Global warming is a subject that tends to divide Evangelical Christians. Some of us accept the scientific studies that make a link between human activity and climate change, while others tend to...
The other day I heard a Bible teacher argue that we should be very cautious about presenting our will, or our desires to God in prayer. She drew from a passage in 1 Samuel 8, where the people of...
My wife Kimberly has downloaded a daily women’s Bible study application that has re-kindled her fascination with the Scriptures. But as is often the case when something seems “too good to be true”,...
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Sometimes we go one step forward and then two steps backwards. At least this is the way a group of described in the Bible certainly must have felt. The story began with a series of attacks and...