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Philippines Theology Conference Spurs Expository Preaching, Listening

Events, Scripture / November 29, 2018

Renewed determination by discouraged preachers and commitments by laypeople to honor the preaching of the word were among the fruit of a preaching conference in the Philippines this fall sponsored by BibleMesh. Organized by BibleMesh Institute student Joshua Gurango and two other ministers in Metro Manila, the October 27 “Theology of Preaching” conference featured sessions […]

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The Abolition of Twins

By C. Ben Mitchell, Culture, Current Events, Events, Scripture, Theology, Worldview / August 18, 2011

This week’s New York Times Magazine’s lead story, “The Two-Minus-One Pregnancy,” was about yet another tragedy of our culture of reproductive control. “For all its successes,” the article points out, “reproductive medicine has produced a paradox: in creating life where none seemed possible, doctors often generate more fetuses than they intend.” In this case, 45 year-old

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Mark Hatfield at the Wednesday Night Service

By Mark Coppenger, Current Events, Events / August 10, 2011

I see that former-Senator Mark Hatfield has died, and one image repeatedly comes to mind—the one of his walking quietly into a Wednesday night service in downtown Chicago, unnoticed by most everyone. But let me back up. I first met Senator Hatfield when I was working under a National Endowment for the Humanities grant while

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Abstaining from… Common Sense

Culture, Ethics, Events, Theology, Worldview / July 18, 2011

Grant proposals are due next week for a federal program that, at first glance, seems to support traditional marriage. But a closer look reveals that the program actually includes a blatant slap at biblical sexual morality. The Department of Health and Human Services announced $75 million to be awarded to worthy applicants under the “Community-Centered

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From the Overflow of the Heart … the Motorist Drives?

Culture, Events / July 13, 2011

In the 1950 Walt Disney cartoon Motor Mania, Goofy stars as Mr. Walker, a model citizen who treats everyone with respect. But once in his car, he becomes Mr. Wheeler, “a power-obsessed ‘uncontrollable monster’ who races other cars at stop lights and views the road as his own personal property.” Then, as soon as he

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The Tyranny of Fraudulent Manners

BibleMesh, Current Events, Ethics, Events / July 7, 2011

On December 1, 1955, a tired black seamstress named Rosa Parks defied what was regarded as a polite custom when she refused to surrender her seat to a white man. Under the “Jim Crow” system of racial discrimination, her Montgomery, Alabama, bus driver had the legal right to move her farther back in the bus

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