Geoffrey Holsclaw
What is the “social construction” of reality? Is everything just relative and subjective? Is everything just made up? Or could the social construction of reality have something to do with being made in God’s image? This is what I’m thinking about as I finish up Lisa Feldman Barrett’s new book, Seven and a […]
Returning Home? Salvation is about returning home—the return to joy. Salvation is the joy that comes in the morning (Ps. 30:5). But… Many of our homes were/are filled with pain and neglect, abuse and trauma, loneliness and fear. We can’t imagine what really joy is even like—the joy that comes in the presence of someone who […]
Why do people experience the same situation so differently? Because we don’t respond to the world. We predict it. And how do we predict the world? Through past experience. Basically, people experience the same situation differently because they have different pasts. This is the focus of chapter 4 of Lisa Feldman Barrett’s new […]
Alice Roberts—scientist, professor, and hornet’s nest kicker— reminded the Twitterverse—on Good Friday—that “dead people – don’t come back to life.” Some 6000 comments (and counting) later, we need to step back and look at the facts (just like professor Roberts, as the unbiased scientist she is would want us to do). Fact: The Tomb was […]
Truth is, we all want blood, even if just to be entertained. Some want physical blood still. Others are content with social media outrage. But we are like those who demanded the blood of Jesus on Good Friday. As the religious (right & left) and the activists (right & left), we would rather get on […]
In the last post I asked, “What is Penal Substitutionary Atonement?” I summarized Thomas Schreiner’s position in The Nature of the Atonement: Four Views as fairly as possible. Now I’m going to offer my own review of the biblical materials. Just How Biblical Is Penal Substitution? Advocates like Schreiner say their view is the most […]
“You can’t hold on to love and live by the law of the jungle…” John Mark McMillan Why love? Why hold on to love? And why should I love my enemy? Worldly-Love might perpetuate the species. But Enemy-Love might save our humanity. Because maybe Enemy-Love is what makes us human, the most human. And if human, then maybe […]