Category Archives: Theology
A Contemplation for Holy Saturday
Holy Saturday was a day of darkness – darkness in the hearts of Jesus enemies, who tried to no avail to thwart God’s plans, and darkness for Jesus’ followers, who did not yet understand His words and believed that their Master was gone forever, that all had been in vain. Continue reading
The Bible Tells Me So, by Peter Enns – a review
What do you do when the Bible doesn’t behave? Well, if you follow the lead of Peter Enns, you decide that the Canaanite genocide never happened, that the creation narratives were designed by post-exilic writers to justify and support Israel’s national identity, and that stories of Jesus’ birth in the Gospels were embellished in order to underscore the broader implications of Jesus’ life and work. Continue reading
Learning Theology with the Church Fathers – a review
A pastor once said to me, “If you want information about God, books written in the last five years are great. But, if you want intimacy with God read books written at least 500 years ago.” He was drawing my … Continue reading
Why I am an Egalitarian
Our personal experiences may differ, but in the end is it not as dangerous to risk forbidding what God endorses as to risk promoting what he forbids? Continue reading
A Girl, a Lion, and a King
At the beginning of this year, I was prompted to read C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia. I’d read some of them before, but have never read the entire series.
The Reluctant Annihilationist – a personal journey
The prospect of standing on what I had become convinced was the most biblical view, against a sea of friends, family, and mentors who would likely think I’d lost my proverbial marbles, was daunting. Continue reading
Christopher J Ray
