Sexual abuse and sexual assault are two of the most painful experiences a human being can endure. From the initial trauma, the physical pain, and the sense of betrayal to the often-lingering battles with identity, control, depression, anxiety, and shame, it’s an aspect of this fallen world that leaves many lives in shreds. And it’s …
1 Now Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. He was valiant soldier, but he had leprosy. 2 Now bands from Aram had gone out and taken captive a young …
In Damned Nation: Hell in America from the Revolution to Reconstruction, Kathryn Gin Lum argues the doctrine of hell made Christianity a useful but dangerous religion in 19th-century America. Lum, assistant professor in the religious studies department at Stanford University, counters the prevailing academic thesis that as cultures modernize, they come to view hell as an obsolete relic. Lum’s desire …
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It is the prerogative of the Christian to reach for unreachable things. The Christian teacher seeks to guide others toward a life of virtue. That virtue can be taught, or for that matter, that it cannot be taught, presupposes how our efforts relate to it. What is virtue, then, such that we may strive for …
Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the LORD and the wall round Jerusalem. 1 Kings 3:1 (ESV) The word “sophomore” means “wise fool” (from sophos and moros), and King Solomon filled …
After the horrific human rights abuses of Nazi Germany were revealed at the end of World War II, an international tribunal was held in Nuremberg to try those who were responsible for the Holocaust. Hard on the heels of those Nuremberg Trials (1945-46) followed the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (1948) which enshrined the …