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From Kuhn To Christ: Why the Old Testament Matters

I remember seeing the movie The Game, starring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn on an airplane during a business trip in the late 1990s. Michael Douglas plays a financier named...

Faith • Biblical Reflections

Through the Eyes of Zechariah

Rev. Dr. Bill Fullilove | 8 min read

Let me tell you my story, now that I can talk again… I’m an old man, way too old to have an infant son. But this is what the last...

Faith • Biblical Reflections

Jesus, Eyes Open

D.S. Chapman | < 1 min read

Over the past months much has remained the same. For many of us this season has stretched longer than our initial predictions, and then longer than our revised predictions. At...

Faith • Biblical Reflections

Revelation: A Competing Symbolic Universe

Dr. Nicholas G. Piotrowski | 16 min read

I hear the word “apocalypse” in casual settings more than a dozen times each year. It seems that every year there is a “Snow-pocalypse,” by which the evening news means...

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A Poet’s response to a Prophet

Alexis Stanford | 3 min read

A Reflection on Jeremiah 29… At first, when I read this passage, I thought I would attempt to write a thorough essay explaining how I, as an African American women,...