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Continue reading →: Violence, Holy War and Us
At Westminster Reads, my church’s Bible reading blog, we are reading the book of Joshua. For many Christians the violence in the book of Joshua (as well as other parts of the Bible) is troubling. After the walls of Jericho fall we read, “Then they devoted to destruction by the…
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Continue reading →: Solvitur Ambulando
Solvitur Ambulando, “it is solved by walking”. I first encountered this phrase in Thomas Long’s book What Shall We Say: Evil, Suffering, and the Crisis of Faith. ( I recommend this book to everyone who asks and even to those who don’t ask, it is that good. ) I first read this phrase…
