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Cell Phones, Silence, and Solitude: Finding Stillness in a Noisy World

BibleMesh, The Bible + Culture / March 16, 2020 March 17, 2020

“Whether or not it draws on new scientific research, technology is a branch of moral philosophy, not of science.” ~ Paul Goodman During my 16 years in the classroom, I’ve witnessed the unbelievably rapid transformation of mobile phone technology. At one point, I overheard a brutally honest conversation between a group of senior boys. They felt …

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A Christian Response to the Coronavirus

BibleMesh / March 11, 2020 March 11, 2020

Self-isolation; pandemic; super spreader; coronavirus; COVID-19. Just a few of the words that have become part of everyday conversation in the weeks since the first outbreak of a novel coronavirus was reported in Wuhan, China on 31 December 2019. As of this writing there are 83,650 confirmed cases and have been 2,858 deaths worldwide, although …

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Male and Female He Created Them

BibleMesh, Culture, The Bible + Culture / March 4, 2020 March 4, 2020

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27 (ESV) In April 2016, the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that public schools may not discriminate against students on the basis of gender identity. Ruling in favor of a …

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How to Spot New Ideas in Theology—And Why it Matters

BibleMesh, By Garry Williams, Church History, Theology / March 2, 2020 April 3, 2020

We should be alert to both the importance of fresh theological work and its danger. There is no doubt that new insights through history have taken the church into a deeper understanding of the Scriptures, often in the context of defending the truth against error. And yet much novelty has itself been error, and even …

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God, Freedom, and Self-Definition

BibleMesh, By Garry Williams, Theology / February 11, 2020 April 3, 2020

Reflecting on God’s providence, John Webster writes: ‘God’s governance secures the creature’s freedom. If this fails to commend itself, it is because it contravenes a destructive convention according to which true freedom is indeterminacy and absolute spontaneity or it is nothing at all. To say that is to deny creatureliness. Freedom is existence in accordance …

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The Compassion of Early Christians

BibleMesh, By Matt Crawford, The Bible + Culture / February 7, 2020 November 16, 2020

The last few years have seen a fair share of books arguing that religion is the cause behind all that is wrong with the world. Although the Christian Church has undoubtedly had its hand in a number of morally dubious activities over the years, a more historical perspective suggests that this is only one side …

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Cell Phones, Silence, and Solitude: Finding Stillness in a Noisy World

A Christian Response to the Coronavirus

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