Peter Barnes

Peter Barnes is a Presbyterian pastor whose writing for Theology Matters draws on grief and the Reformation. A husband and theologian writing from personal loss as well as theological inheritance.

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2017

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May 2018

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Suffering · 2018 Spring EditionFinding Joy on the Journey of Grief

Lewis wrote A Grief Observed after losing Joy Davidman to cancer in 1960. Barnes reads Lewis through his own grief after his wife Lorie's death in 2016, and finds something…

May 30, 2018

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Theology · 2017 Fall EditionThe Call to Reformation

Luther was supposed to become a lawyer; his ambitious father had a plan. A thunderstorm changed the plan. Barnes follows the personal story of how an unlikely candidate became the…

November 16, 2017

Peter Barnes

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