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Hume, Tiger, & Jesus

Closed Published by Jonathan Dodson January 8th, 2010 on Creation Project

Interesting article on Brit Hume’s comments regarding Tiger Woods and Jesus.

Nobody Hates Jesus

Closed Published by jdodson October 19th, 2008 on Creation Project

Jesus is not the exclusive property of Christians. Polls reveal that Americans of all faiths view Jesus ‘overwhelmingly in a favorable light” and that he has “a strong hold on those with no religious training.”‘Amazingly, nearly half of the country’s non-Christians believe that Jesus was born from a virgin and raised from the dead. Here […]

Horton Helps Us Hear Jesus

Closed Published by jdodson March 23rd, 2008 on Creation Project

One of the main reasons that we don’t hear Jesus or recognize him, as god or as risen, is that our worldview won’t let us see or hear him. We have ruled out belief in things that we can’t see, hear or touch—like Jesus. This is precisely the belief of the Kangaroo in Horton Hears […]

Are Miracles Supernatural?

Closed Published by jdodson January 18th, 2008 on Creation Project

One of my fondest seminary professors, Sean McDonough, posed this question in his classes on the Gospels: “Are the miracles really supernatural?” In answering this question he drew upon the insights of Jürgen Moltmann who asserts: “Jesus’ healings are not supernatural miracles in a natural world. They are the only truly ‘natural’ thing in a […]

Choose-Your-Own Adventure Jesus

Closed Published by jdodson January 16th, 2008 on Creation Project

At some point in their lives, most Americans have been asked, “Is Jesus your savior?” Though the American Jesus has stripped the historical Jesus of many things (deity, Trinity, truth-telling), the notion that he is a savior still remains in the general consciousness of our nation. Most people that lay any claim to Jesus do […]

Open letter from the Salvadoran Church

Closed Published by peoplenotprofit September 21st, 2007 on People not profit

SALVADORAN ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT
San Salvador, 3 September 2007
ALERT IN EL SALVADOR
The people are forsaken and scattered.
“When Jesus saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.”
Matthew 9:36
Pastoral Letter from the Historic Churches
To: All Salvadorans of good will
To: The three powers of the Salvadoran state: the executive, […]

Wise old man

Closed Published by peoplenotprofit June 25th, 2007 on People not profit

If we were to choose a grandfather for People not profit, it would definitely be Wendell Berry. Here’s just one reason why:From his 2005 commencement address at Lindsey Wilson college:
“Violence, in short, is the norm of our economic life and our national security…The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed […]

The brutality of the crucifixion

Closed Published by Charles Whitmire January 1st, 1970 on Connexion

As I prepared for this mornings message this week, I focused on Mark 15. The description of Jesus’ crucifixion doesn’t do justice to the horror that he must have endured… Flogging was designed to tear the body apart, exhaust the…

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