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Which Way do you Listen?

Byhenry September 19, 2009

Recently Dave Black made a comment regarding the way in which we hold certain correct doctrines (HT: Dave Black Online. I’m just going to quote one sentence here, which was as much as I could quote in a tweet: … sometimes even biblically correct positions can be reduced to a dogmatic narrowness, formalism, and fundamentalism….

Blog Carnivals

Biblical Studies Carnival #43 Posted

Byhenry July 1, 2009

… or prophesied, as the case may be, at kata ta biblia.

Christianity | Religion

Are You Preserving Holy Bricks?

Byhenry September 21, 2012

There’s an insightful article on the Spectrum Magazine web site titled Holy Bricks. This one deals particularly with Seventh-day Adventist bricks, but the principles discussed apply anywhere. I have yet to encounter a community that doesn’t have a few holy bricks to deal with. I particularly liked the point where a constituent in a meeting…

Christianity | Diversity | Doctrines

The Joys and Sorrows of being ex-Seventh-day Adventist

Byhenry October 26, 2007

I don’t actually view myself as “ex” anything, even though we all are ex-something and headed onward to something else, I hope. But I don’t shun contact with members of the church in which I grew up, and thus I sometimes have to deal with the default identity of ex-Seventh-day Adventist. Now don’t get me…

Bible Study | Christianity

Hanging Your Interpretation

Byhenry November 14, 2005

I have just added a new essay to my collection on Biblical interpretation, entitled Hanging Your Interpretation. I have needed to write this essay for some time, as I often suggest using the procedure described, but have never presented any sort of detail about how it should be done. I am often asked for quick…

Christianity | Prayer

There Are Plenty of Opportunities to Pray

Byhenry August 13, 2017

School is starting, and so we have the regular drumbeat of comments about prayer in school. One of the most common, used at my church today, is the comment that as long as there are exams, there will always be prayer in public schools. Which is, of course, quite true. Also, largely irrelevant. Opponents of…

Blog Carnivals

Biblical Studies Carnival #43 Posted

Byhenry July 1, 2009

… or prophesied, as the case may be, at kata ta biblia.

Christianity | Religion

Are You Preserving Holy Bricks?

Byhenry September 21, 2012

There’s an insightful article on the Spectrum Magazine web site titled Holy Bricks. This one deals particularly with Seventh-day Adventist bricks, but the principles discussed apply anywhere. I have yet to encounter a community that doesn’t have a few holy bricks to deal with. I particularly liked the point where a constituent in a meeting…

Christianity | Diversity | Doctrines

The Joys and Sorrows of being ex-Seventh-day Adventist

Byhenry October 26, 2007

I don’t actually view myself as “ex” anything, even though we all are ex-something and headed onward to something else, I hope. But I don’t shun contact with members of the church in which I grew up, and thus I sometimes have to deal with the default identity of ex-Seventh-day Adventist. Now don’t get me…

Bible Study | Christianity

Hanging Your Interpretation

Byhenry November 14, 2005

I have just added a new essay to my collection on Biblical interpretation, entitled Hanging Your Interpretation. I have needed to write this essay for some time, as I often suggest using the procedure described, but have never presented any sort of detail about how it should be done. I am often asked for quick…

Christianity | Prayer

There Are Plenty of Opportunities to Pray

Byhenry August 13, 2017

School is starting, and so we have the regular drumbeat of comments about prayer in school. One of the most common, used at my church today, is the comment that as long as there are exams, there will always be prayer in public schools. Which is, of course, quite true. Also, largely irrelevant. Opponents of…

Blog Carnivals

Biblical Studies Carnival #43 Posted

Byhenry July 1, 2009

… or prophesied, as the case may be, at kata ta biblia.

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