Similar Posts
Finding My Way in Christianity
ByhenryI’ve tried to make a habit of writing some personal reflections on the books my company, Energion Publications, publishes. That doesn’t usually involve that many posts, but I got behind earlier in the year, and I’m catching up. This one is going to be longer than usual because these are personal reflections, and this book…
Christian Carnival CCLXXXVIII Posted
Byhenry… at the Jevlir Caravansary, which is one of my blogs. It’s the “caravan route edition.” Enjoy!
St. Gregory the Theologian on Ransom and the Bronze Serpent
ByhenryI was delighted to find this quote via the Orthodox Study Bible, though I must add to my complaints about that edition the fact that they cite church fathers by name, but without providing a reference to the particular work. A visit to the St. Pachomius Library and then ewtn.com resolved the latter question. The…
Reason is all over Bible Study
ByhenryIn a post on Complegalitarian, Molly Alley discusses how reasonable it is to hold a doctrine that assumes that women will never mature, as in men where once boys who needed the guidance of a parent, but eventually they become mature and are considered ready for leadership. But what about women? Of course, as an…
The Jonah Problem Redux
ByhenryBruce Alderman wrote an interesting post today on what has to be somewhere close to my favorite book of the Bible–Jonah. He referenced an earlier post of mine from my Threads blog, but I’m not really commenting on that part. I should also note that while I call Jonah somewhere close to my favorite book,…
Praying and Studying to Change Yourself
ByhenryYesterday I wrote a bit about using prayer and Bible study as a starting point for change. The problem is that it’s very easy to pray and study the Bible in such a way that it makes you a worse person. I’ve found a relatively simple way to determine whether I’m doing this myself: If…
That cartoon is the bomb!