“Reading Scripture” … is not as simple as most Protestants would like to believe. Reading is a transaction, and by no means a neutral transaction. A text does not simply “say what it says,” despite the rational good intentions of a sensible reader like Alice in Wonderland. We read more like Humpty-Dumpty than [...]
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Reading Scriptures: A Transaction
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Father Joseph Damien
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15 April 1889. Joseph de Veuster, popularly known as “Father Damien,” dies a leper in the island of Molokai where he lovingly ministered to a leper colony for about 16 years. April 15 is Hawaii’s “Father Damien Day.” [More about him here.]
In his article, “The Price of Sacrifice,” Evangelical theologian Ravi Zacharias writes [...]
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