A new “Legend of Zelda” computer game has arrived. I don’t give credit to gaming companies for actually having a 40 year marketing plan, but the timing of the game is brilliant. Children who got Nintendo game consoles in the 90s are now parents, and the new Zelda game provides the opportunity for them to …
I have come to believe that knowing God is hard. Knowing praise songs is easy. Knowing doctrine is a bit harder, but pretty easy. Knowing when to stand up, sit down, and what to say in worship (depending on the church) seems really hard, but even that is quite easy with a bit of practice. …
This week I want to continue pondering the implications of the resurrection, this time focusing on the bodily resurrection. The theological importance of bodily resurrection did not become fully obvious until Christianity moved beyond the Levant into Asia Minor and Greece, where the Semitic understanding of the world was far less significant and Greek and …
I’ve been reading Karl Barth as part of my on again, off again process of re-reading the Church Dogmatics. As he does throughout the CD, he is busy taking his old teachers to task. They had wandered too far from the biblical text, and Barth was calling the church back to the text. The generation …
I suspect we can’t imagine a world without decay. I’m a sci-fi fan and immortality is a common feature in sci-fi books, but it is rarely considered a positive thing. Those who have discovered immortality eventually become weary of that existence, leaving the tale altogether in the end. The sci-fi authors never explore what happens …
Just Another Jim 