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Bible-reading lessons from Sherlock and Father Brown

Posted on August 30, 2012 by TheEvangelicalLiberal

A few months ago I re-read all the Sherlock Holmes stories, and I’ve recently finished all the Father Browns. While the characters and methods of Conan Doyle’s acerbic, deductive sleuth and Chesterton’s kindly, intuitive cleric are almost polar opposites, they … Continue reading →

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Hell as unreality and unrelationship

Posted on June 1, 2012 by TheEvangelicalLiberal

The two views of hell that make most sense to me are that it is unreality and unrelationship. Rather than a spatial location, a place of divinely-imposed torment, I’d suggest that hell is an existential state – the internal condition … Continue reading →

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Healthy and unhealthy religion: summary and postscript

Posted on November 9, 2011 by TheEvangelicalLiberal

Firstly, apologies for that beast of a long post on healthy/unhealthy religion – at 3000 words, a record in verbosity even for me. Bonus points to anyone who has actually managed to trawl through all of it. For the less … Continue reading →

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