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Nouwen’s Insights– on Waiting on the Lord
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Ben Witherington
During a difficult season in my Christian life, Henri Nouwen provided me with manna from heaven, water in a weary and dry place and guidance on spiritual formation that I still live out of. I would say he is certainly one of the greatest spiritual formation writers of any age. The picture on the left…
A FAST CALL TO SLOW DOWN— MANDATUM THURSDAY
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Ben Witherington
In the Gospels, when the Evangelists get to Passion Week the narrative slows down, even to the point of giving us an hour by hour, blow by blow account for some parts of the story. We have arrived at prime time, or ‘Jesus hour’ as it is called in the Fourth Gospel. The Gospels have…
Bart Ehrman’s New Book– God’s Problem
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Ben Witherington
Well its Holy Week, and of course we have come to expect bombshells lobbed at the church by various pundits during this week, and right on cue we have a new book by Bart Ehrman that suggests “we can’t believe a good all powerful God exists because there is suffering in the world.” My friend…
New Time Article on Rob Bell’s Take on early Judaism (and Mine)
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Ben Witherington
You might not realize it from the most recent article in Time about Rob Bell and myself, but I am a Rob Bell fan, and am very grateful for numerous things he is doing for Christ. I do have an issue with his use of early Jewish sources that date from after the time of…
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