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Don't Chart God on a Grid
I like that scene in the movie Dead Poets Society in which Mr. Keating, an English instructor at an elite preparatory school, asks his students to rip ...
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Study of Trinity Converts Muslim
One of the chief obstacles to a Muslim becoming a Christian is the doctrine of the Trinity. Muslims believe there is only one God—Allah—and ...
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St. Augustine on the Vastness of the Trinity
Shortly after [St. Augustine had finished his theological tome On the Trinity], he was walking along the Mediterranean shore on the coast of North Africa ...
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Glimpsing the Transcendent
Think of a man standing at night inside his house, with all the doors closed; and then suppose that he opens a window just at the moment when there is ...
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The Wrong Kind of Knowledge
We want a kind of knowledge that eliminates mystery and puts us in charge of [the] world. Above all, we want to avoid a knowledge that calls for our own ...
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Playing God
Advances in technology have allowed scientists to come closer than ever to the physical origins of life. But they are as far away as ever from defining ...
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Atheist Richard Dawkins on the Christian Idea of God
After the publication of his book The God Delusion, outspoken atheist and Oxford professor Richard Dawkins sat down with the editors of TIME magazine ...
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Seeing Jesus in the Dark
When I was a student at Harvard Divinity School, I learned preaching from Dr. Gardner Taylor, a pastor in New York City. I'll never forget those lectures. ...
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N. T. Wright on Discipleship
The way to Christian growth is often to allow oneself to be puzzled and startled by new apparent complexity … Is it, after all, Jesus we want to ...
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Simple Text Message Leads to Marriage
After a night out with friends, David Brown, an Englishman, woke up with a series of random numbers on his mind. After much internal debate as to why ...
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