27 articles from 22 issues, 1995 to 2022 · Page 3 of 3
Why did God let this happen? Pastor M. Craig Barnes says the myth of personal wholeness has made suffering an accusation, and he reads the missing fruit in Eden as a picture of what it means to be a thankful creature rather than a creator.
Can education cure what is wrong with us? Dean Turbeville says it cannot, because the power of sinners to deceive themselves outruns it, and he finds the proof in the language of the abortion debate, where only a soul converted to the good can see plainly.
What happens when both sides of a church debate use the same words to mean different things? Frederica Mathewes-Green contrasts the modernist and classic Christian views of the human condition and argues that when truth trumps modernism, everyone, including the vanquished, wins.
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