Tired of endless uncertainties and doctrinal repaintings
From Why We’re Not Emergent, a book that I reviewed yesterday:
I’m convinced there are just as many of us – Christian and not – in our postmodern world who are tired of
Theology
Forgiving ourselves
It’s popular to say that we need to forgive ourselves, but is that a valid concept?
I’d suggest that the desire for ourselves to be forgiven is a valid one, but
The ways that forgiveness is unconditional
Yesterday I suggested that there are elements of forgiveness that are conditional, and there are elements that are unconditional. I suggested that the offended party must unconditionally move toward forgiveness, but forgiveness can
More Volf on non-retaliation and God’s justice
How does one not retaliate in the middle of brutal violence? How does one embrace non-retalitation when we’re talking about something like genocide rather than only an unkind word? Miroslav Volf, a
The third basis for forgiveness
Why should we forgive?
* One: because we understand how much we have been forgiven
* Two: because we see ourselves as just as sinful, or more, as the one who has hurt us
* Three: