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God’s Strangeness
Skimming through a stack of books recently, I found myself reading a testimonial of sorts from James D. G. Dunn, the great New Testament scholar who coined the phrase...
Pope Packer
J. I. Packer: An Evangelical Life by leland ryken crossway, 432 pages, $30 I f Evangelical Protestants had a pope, who would it be? Until his death at age...
Dating Books
One of the pleasures of recording on the inside cover of a book the date you finished reading it—I’ve been doing that now for over a decade—is that, when...
Faith’s Desire
God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay ‘On the Trinity’ by sarah coakley cambridge, 384 pages, $29.99 I recently took part in a conversation among some young theologians and...
Dallas Willard (1935-2013): A Reader’s Appreciation
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Thoughts on Does Jesus Really Love Me?
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The Agony of a Steadily Trusting Faith
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Homosexuality and Impatience for Joy
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Teaching on Christian Friendship
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Neither Presumption nor Despair
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Friendship in Between ‘Romance’ and Loneliness
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Once More: On the Label ‘Gay Christian’
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‘Hope for the Gay Undergrad’
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Christians: Siblings, Not ‘Friends’?
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Friendship in the Ordinary
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