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American Religious Freedom?
I regularly find myself saying that Christians in America are in a historically peculiar place. Whereas our defining documents (the New Testament writings) were written by socially and politically...
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Christian Oppression and American Religious Freedom
Today’s post picks up on yesterday’s summary of David Sehat, The Myth of American Religious Freedom. I am a historian neither of American religious history nor of the American judicial and legal...
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Freedom for a Real God
Two points in Karl Barth’s articulation of the Spirit’s revelation of the Word of God to humanity deserve fresh hearing in a world that tends to go a very different direction. One of these is the issue...
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Freedom from Sin
When the Bible talks about the work of Jesus, it uses an abundance of metaphors. We sometimes get ourselves stuck. We have an idea of what it means to confess that Jesus “died for our sins,” and we...
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On Loving in Freedom
How are we to think of God? When folks start getting all technical about it, they sometimes talk about God’s attributes as “communicable” and “incommunicable”: who God is for us, the God we can share...
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Since we’re all up in Barth’s “God is the one who loves in freedom,” it seemed apropos to post this short video of Barth summoning people to be friends, even champions of Freedom, rather than its...
View ArticleIndependence Day
Farewell, old masters–it’s Independence Day! Or fare poorly for that matter. Your reign has come to an end. And we are free. Of course, this freedom is not cheaply gained. Such victories never are. The...
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Happy America Day! July 4th, the day we celebrate our independence from those rotten English types. It’s the perfect day to work your way through the Mel Gibson trilogy of anti-England movies:...
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Sorry for the radio silence over the past two weeks. I was in Sydney and Melbourne leading some conferences for the Christians for Biblical Equality. I’ll make the talks available soon, but wanted to...
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A couple weeks ago I posted about the connection between freedom and identity. Our experience of freedom, and ability to act freely, is inseparable from our sense of self. Do we know who we are? Are we...
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