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Tim Hawkins and Milton Jones: Sometimes Laughter is the Only Apologetic
Comedian Milton Jones has given brief, well reasoned defence of the Christian faith on the Guardian’s Website. Anyone who has read his “10 Second Sermons”will know that he is an unusually thoughtful Christian, who puts more thought into a quip than some writers put into an essay.
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Tagged Popologetics
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Around the Web: Weird Laws and Genocidal Tribes
The Old Testament creates a number of puzzles. For example, what should we make of the strange laws in the Torah? Christopher JH Wright gives an insightful answer in this article, explaining how we can learn to love Leviticus. Richard Hess illuminates the world of the Old Testament in these articles, which defend the historicity of the Old Testament texts and deal with the difficult issue of Israel’s war with the Canaanites.
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Tagged "Leap of Faith" (Not), Conquest, Difficult Texts, Genocide, Revelation, The Bible Tells Me So!
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