Tag: Sin
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Genesis 3: The Birth of Patriarchy
The Fall did not bring a harmful kind of hierarchy, but the first hierarchy the world had ever known.
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Becoming Truly Human
In his work On the Incarnation, the 4th century church father Athanasius of Alexandria wrote, “He [Jesus] became what we are that we might become what he is.” At first glance, it might be easy to think Athanasius means we become god–or a god. Certainly theologians over the years have argued that. But that’s not […]
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Write Again
In eleven years of publishing posts on this site, I had only missed posting seven months. Seven. In eleven years. And most of those months off were taken off by design because of various seasons of life. But then 2018 came. We moved back to Nebraska, after having moved twice in the previous year. We’ve settled […]
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Work is Not the Curse…but It Is Cursed
In my last post, we saw that all work when done to the glory of God is sacred. There is no such thing as “sacred” work (like the work of a pastor) and “secular” work (like the work of a engineer or lawyer). We get tastes of the beauty and sacredness of work in this […]