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Armadillos in My Garden

I saw my first real, live armadillo last Thanksgiving weekend. It was not without warning. We visited my sister in Texas for the holiday, and while there I saw an

Matthew Lee AndersonTheology and Practice

The Individualizing Presence

Ingolf Dalferth: In all its varieties the Christian sense of the presence of God individualizes, i.e. transforms particular human beings into individual persons. When it dawns upon me that

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The Spiritual Visibility of the Kingdom of God: A Reply to Sessions

David Sessions, on my review of The Next Christians: I’m not going to endorse Lyons’ theology without having read his books, but I balk at this tendency to over-

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Christianity and Hellenism, Part 3 of 3: On Human Nature

One of the theological areas most likely to raise questions about the relationship between historical Christian teaching and Greek (especially Platonic) thought is that of human nature. Especially with regard

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Christianity and Hellenism, Part 2 of 3: On Being, Loosely Speaking

In my last post, I asserted that the early Christians made discriminating use of the ideas and methods of Greek philosophy. The key terms and categories were carefully reshaped and

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Nothing Behind the Curtain - Reflections on a Wedding

Cross-posted at Notes from a Small Place, where I've had several posts related to marriage lately, hence the disclaimer below. Disclaimer: I kinda-sorta want to apologize

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Carrying the Fallen

Three American flags draped the coffins lying on the cargo floor of my C-17.  It was only three hours earlier that I had received a phone call informing me

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Arguing with George William Curtis

I'd never heard of George William Curtis before this past Saturday. A quote of his popped up on my friend's facebook wall, in what I assume

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Sarah Coakley Reads Descartes

And is awfully kind. "Again, and on another point raised by the critics, the relation of soul and body in Descartes is often badly misunderstood.  There is indeed a

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Suggest My Book's Title, Win Fame and Glory (in Heaven)

My last plea for help on this book was so successful, and shaped so much of my thinking about the direction my book is going in, that I thought I&

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Weekend Edification: What Christianity Teaches about the Body

One of the most interesting side-projects I've been working on during my research has been trying to find evangelicals who address the body specifically. That it has

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What Children in the Womb Know

Boing Boing has a helpful write-up of what, and how, infants in the womb know about the world.  Here are two of the highlights: "They can tell the