Recently I have been re reading Henri Nouwen’s book Life of the Beloved and I’ve been thinking again about “chosenness”. In my Presbyterian tradition and in the larger Reformed tradition, chosenness can be awkward and difficult topic.The idea that we are chosen gets equated with election and also with predestination. The popular usage of those terms misses […]
Category: truth
Reading Job Literally but not Historically
Some would argue that the story of Job actually happened. There was a person named Job to whom a series terrible tragedies occurred and the book of Job accurately tells us his story. Some would say that Job is a thought experiment. It was written to explore the idea of how God is at work in the world. Some would […]
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