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  • Letting Evil Win

    When God created the world and everything in it, his appraisal of all he had made was that it was very good. Every good gift comes from God, and he is incapable of doing evil because his very nature is love. Evil entered the world when people first began to suspect that God was not…

  • After the Stoning

    After receiving some questions, I realize that I need to set the context for this imagined story. The speaker is a member of the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem who has just participated in stoning Stephen to death. Stoning was a method of execution that required community participation, so you would get together with friends and colleagues…

  • Patience and Power

    Love begins with patience. Fundamental to every act of love is respect for the agency of the one loved. This is the main reason why God does not intervene in ways we think he should to prevent war, pestilence, famine, and other causes of large-scale suffering. His intervention takes the form of individual acts of…

  • Transaction or Transformation?

    “If your brother or sister sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them. Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying ‘I repent,’ you must forgive them.” The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” He replied, “If you have…

  • Doing God’s Will

    In Matthew 7:21–23, Jesus warns his followers against a facile faith that trusts in saying the right words and doing notable deeds in his name. Not everyone who calls him Lord will enter his kingdom, but only those who do his Father’s will. Then he declares that on Judgment Day, many will appear before him,…

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