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  • Holiness

    It is very difficult to describe holiness without circularity. To be holy means to be set apart for sacred use, but, of course, “sacred” is just another word for holy. Certainly one important characteristic of holiness is set-apart-ness, separation from others of the same kind. The first use of a word meaning “made holy” in…

  • Lukewarm

    Lukewarm Christians make me vomit. popular saying among evangelical Christians, attributed to Jesus based on Revelation 3:16 Meh. That’s the lukewarm response to just about everything. It indicates indifference or minimal investment. A lukewarm Christian lacks spiritual fervor and zeal. At least, that’s what I’ve always thought and what I’ve always heard from sermons on…

  • Changing My Mind

    Most of us believe a myth about how knowledge is acquired, especially about how we ourselves go from ignorance and error to knowledge and truth. We tell ourselves that when evident facts contradict what we believe, then we will change our minds. That has not been my experience. Deeply held beliefs require a lot of…

  • What a Witness Does

    Growing up as I did in the evangelical church, I heard a lot about witnessing, and it warped my understanding of what a witness does. From a young age I thought that witnessing meant “telling others about Jesus.” I was unaware at first that the broader culture rarely used “witness” as a verb, or that…

  • 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…

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