I must follow, if I can


Pursuing it with eager feet / Until it joins some larger way
  • Single-Issue Politics

    By Aaron Lord
    I have become a single-issue Republican. It turns out I disagree with the party rank and file about every other issue, however. I support the labor movement. I want home schooling to be outlawed. I want my children to learn about evolution and the Big Bang. I want PBS and... [Read More]
  • No man is indispensable

    By Aaron Lord
    ‎”No man is indispensable.” —French proverb“If I resign today there will be chaos.” —Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak [Read More]
  • What Happened to the Fertile in Fertile Crescent?

    By Aaron Lord
    In ancient times [...] much of the Fertile Crescent and eastern Mediterranean region, including Greece, was covered with forest. The region's transformation from fertile woodland to eroded scrub or desert has been elucidated by paleobotanists and archaeologists. Its woodlands were cleared for agriculture, or cut to obtain construction timber, or... [Read More]
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  • Pete Enns on the Dark Night of the Soul

    By Aaron Lord
    There is a benefit of doubt. Doubt is a gift of God to move us from trusting ourselves to trusting him.Doubt forces us to examine what we believe about God—and this can be unsettling. What we thought was our “faith in God” sometimes winds up being little more than faith... [Read More]
  • "God Lisps": Calvin on the Incarnational Nature of God’s Word

    By Aaron Lord
    The Anthropomorphites also, who imagined God to be corporeal, because the Scripture frequently ascribes to him a mouth, ears, eyes, hands, and feet, are easily refuted. (For who, even of the meanest capacity, understands not, that God lisps, as it were, with us, just as nurses are accustomed to speak... [Read More]
  • Are you worldly?

    By Aaron Lord
    “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:2 (ESV) [Read More]