f2PointEight
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Tag: biblical scholarship
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Between Faith and Evidence
Misused History and Manufactured Certainty I recently read an essay called The Truth Will Set You Free. It was written as a sincere critique of Christian participation in practices the author deemed impure. It spoke of divine names, corrupted traditions, and a call to return to a faith untainted by history or human hands. But…
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A Pleasing Aroma: God, Blood and The Fragrance of Sacrifice
Tracing ritual sacrifice, blood and smoke from Canaanite altars to the cross. This essay argues that temple ritual, human sacrifice and communion all arise from the same shared ancient grammar of sacred, violent devotion.
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The Making, and Unmaking of God…
A Belief Without Burden My earlier essays explored why I no longer see Christianity as morally coherent and why, despite its claims to be a spiritual family, it repeatedly fails to generate the community it promises. But these questions, important as they are, rest upon a deeper one. Before we can ask whether Christianity is…
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