Day: March 16, 2011

5 things you should know about the Bible

If you’re one of those people with a nagging feeling that you should know more about the Bible than you do — or even if you can recite chapter and verse (but don’t know that those chapters and verses come from a 13th century archbishop of Canterbury and a 16th century Parisian, respectively) — then these five basic things will catapult you to a new level of biblical literacy.

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How do Japan’s religions confront tragedy?

“Japanese are not religious in the way that people in North America are religious,” . . . “They’ll move back and forth between two or more religious traditions, seeing them as tools that are appropriate for certain situations.”

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Anglican Covenant not Anglican

To Ramsey, following in the footsteps of Richard Hooker and most Anglican Divines, Anglican Theology is a tool. It is a tool that is intended to bring us into deeper relationship with God and with our neighbor. It is meant to facilitate right praise, prayer, thanksgiving, and service.

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Principles of temptation

The first great principle of temptation I shall note, is a general mistake, which excuses very many of our crimes upon pretence of infirmity, calling all those sins to which by natural disposition we are inclined (though by carelessness and evil customs they are heightened to a habit) by the name of sins of infirmity;

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