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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