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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...
On Avoiding “Fantastical” Weddings
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On Hospitality and Unstructured Time
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What Phil Robertson Gets Wrong
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Missing Housemates
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Friendship After Christ
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The Specificities of Friendship
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Friendship Means “Living Each Other’s Death”
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Odd-Numbered Hospitality
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Discipleship for Wayfarers
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Celibacy is Not the Gospel
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A Quiet, Gay-Rights Revolution Among Evangelicals? Well, Maybe…
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