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Author Archives: Alastair Roberts
Lenten Guest Post – Day 15 – He Healed Them All
And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to … Continue reading
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Lenten Guest Post – Day 14 – Walk With Me a Mile
After watching a film on the life of Dietrich Bonheoffer a few days ago, the question of violence has been tugging insistently at my heart. Naturally, then, I would like to explore the text at the heart of Bonheoffer’s peculiar … Continue reading
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News and Links
As I am very bad at keeping up to date with e-mail correspondence with my friends and family, from time to time I will post news updates on this blog. The last few weeks have been relatively uneventful. Last week … Continue reading
Lenten Guest Post – Day 12 – A Case for the Christian Year
In my work as campus minister at a Christian school, it often falls to me to answer questions from my Southern Baptist co-workers regarding some of my allegiance to the Christian year. A few days ago a farmer working on … Continue reading
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Brueggemann on the Loss of Lament
In an article, ‘The Costly Loss of Lament’ [JSOT (1986) 57-71], Walter Brueggemann address the manner in which lament seems to have dropped out of the ‘functioning canon’, identifying some of the unfortunate results of this. One loss that results … Continue reading
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Lenten Guest Post – Day 11 – The Jesus Diet
John 4:31-34 “My food is to do the will of Him who sent me and to accomplish His work” (John 4:34). If more of America embraced Jesus’ teaching in John 4, perhaps we as a nation would not have the … Continue reading
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Lenten Guest Post – Day 10 – Contagion of Purity
And as Jesus returned, the multitude welcomed Him, for they had all been waiting for Him. And behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was an official of the synagogue; and he fell at Jesus’ feet, and began … Continue reading
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More on the ‘Jesus Family Tomb’: So What Does The 1:600 Statistic Actually Mean?
This post gives a mathematician’s perspective on the question. It turns out that the 1:600 statistic doesn’t make anywhere near as impressive a claim as the media would generally suggest it does. Quelle surprise! Update: Mark Goodacre follows up with … Continue reading
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Lenten Guest Post – Day 9 – Juxtaposition
And when He had come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed Him. And behold, a leper came to Him, and bowed down to Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” And He stretched out … Continue reading
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