by Jeff | Jun 10, 2021 | Numbering Our Days
This week has been an extraordinary one for writing topics. On a personal level, Minnesota is in the midst of a record-breaking heat wave and we were without air conditioning over the weekend. On Saturday, Minneapolis broke a high temperature record, hitting 100! We...
by Jeff | Jun 3, 2021 | The current crisis
Last week a friend wrote to me drawing a loose comparison between Rosa Parks (1913–2005), the courageous African-American woman who refused to yield to the racially-constructed, Jim Crow-era rule that required blacks to sit in certain seats on a bus and to move if a...
by Jeff | May 27, 2021 | The current crisis
These are indeed interesting days in North America among believers. Our fellow Christians in Canada are labouring under extreme government lockdowns, ostensibly to mitigate the COVID virus, while the Southern Baptists are preparing for their annual convention in...
by Jeff | May 19, 2021 | The current crisis
As most of my readers know, I have been following closely the goings on of COVID and church life in Canada, my second home, where my wife and I served our first 19 years of ministry and where all of my children were born. If you ask them, they will proudly tell you...
by Jeff | May 13, 2021 | Theological Issues
Some issues in theological discourse just never go away. Supporters on one side or the other are committed and tenacious in the articulation and defense of their views. Part of the tenacity arises from the belief that the stakes are just too high to surrender. The...
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