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Continue reading →: Bible Conversations Then and Now
I’m not a textual scholar or trained in literary analysis (just to be clear), but it seems to me that the stories we tell are often, if not always, in conversation with the culture around them. We tell a story in response to something or to clarify something or to…
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Continue reading →: Chosenness
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…
