Marks of a Unified Church

Byhenry February 21, 2012

Walter Brueggemann suggests how we might avoid getting tangled up on secondary issues:

(HT: Allan R. Bevere)

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A Monopoly on Healing?
Byhenry August 13, 2012
I’m enjoying editing Bruce Epperly‘s new book, to be released this fall, Healing Marks. Here’s an excerpt: A Monopoly on Healing? Quite satisfied with their orthodoxy and ability to maintain the purity of Jesus’ healing ministry, the disciples come to Jesus with what they assume is good news: “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons…
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White Supremacists and the Jena 6
Byhenry September 23, 2007
MSNBC is reporting that there is a [tag]white supremacist[/tag] web site reporting phone numbers and addresses for families of the [tag]Jena 6[/tag]: CNN first reported Friday about the Web site, which features a swastika, frequent use of racial slurs, a mailing address in Roanoke, Va., and phone numbers purportedly for some of the teens’ families…
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Interpreting the Bible II: Excursus on the Plain Sense
Byhenry December 29, 2008
I want to tie up a few loose ends in my first post on this series as well as point out some things on which I will need to comment further. In particular, I read this post by John Hobbins that references a post by Wayne Leman regarding complementarianism and the “plain sense” of scripture….
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Agendas, Conversation, and Bible Reading
Byhenry November 29, 2023
It’s not really a new thing, but in a number of conversations recently, both in person and online, I’ve been noticing agendas. Someone will make a comment or say something in a conversation that really doesn’t seem to make sense in context, but then if you consider a different context, you’ll suddenly see that the…
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Reason is all over Bible Study
Byhenry April 4, 2008
In 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…
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Metaphor of Incarnation
Byhenry December 21, 2005
It’s unlikely that anyone has failed to notice that I have spent no time thus far in trying to demonstrate that the doctrine of the incarnation is true. I’ve just been playing with its meaning. In fact, I generally don’t find it appropriate to try to prove a mystery in the first place. Let’s just…
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2 Comments

Bob MacDonald says:

February 21, 2012 at 8:26 pm

Brilliant last line! – Love it – thanks.

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1. Henry Neufeld says:
  
  February 22, 2012 at 9:23 am
  
  That’s a powerful message for 2:22! I really enjoyed it as well.
  
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