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Daily Archives: July 2, 2018
Review: A Subversive Gospel
Originally posted on Bob on Books:
A Subversive Gospel (Studies in Theology and the Arts), Michael Mears Bruner. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Academic, 2017. Summary: Proposes that the grotesque and violent character of Flannery O’Connor’s work reflects her understanding of the subversive…
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Trying to understand a vile practice
Originally posted on theoutwardquest:
Most people today would consider human sacrifice a kind of ritual murder. We see it as morally ugly. There is quite a bit of evidence that it was, shockingly, practiced by a wide range of ancient…
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Church Write-Up: 7/1/2018
Here is my weekly Church Write-Up about last Sunday’s services that I attended. A. The text on which the LCMS pastor preached was Lamentations 3:22-33. In the midst of the disaster that Jerusalem had experienced, Jeremiah finds hope in God’s … Continue reading
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James' Ramblings 