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Several discussions lately have reminded me of deep, ongoing needs within our conservative Anabaptist churches. (I’m sure some of these needs are also present..

Well, 2015 is half gone. New Year’s resolutions have fizzled and summer has us all running hard. Has your Bible reading hit a slump as the mercury hits new hi..

Gathercole, Simon. Defending Substitution: An Essay on Atonement in Paul (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2015). 128pp. Publisher’s description. (Amaz..

When Mom “submits” a poem to me for publication, a dialogue begins. Since every word in a poem is important, we evaluate what Mom has written. What exactly ..

[For the first post in this series, see: “Tradition in the NT (1): Bad Examples.”] “What you have done for my son and my family is beyond love.” The wri..

[For the sequel to this post, see “Tradition in the NT (2): Good Examples.”] “I don’t have much Scripture for this sermon.” The speaker was a visiting..

Those of us who use the Christian Light Publications Sunday School materials will be studying Hebrews for the next three months (June, July, August). I thought ..

I’ve suggested in some of my recent blog posts that multiplying church regulations isn’t the solution for producing holiness. And I’ve said that the gospe..

My recent posts prompted a couple questions that I want to answer briefly here. Both are good questions, deserving much fuller responses than I will be able to ..

Well, it’s no surprise: The topic of church standards and traditions gets conservative Anabaptists fired up like little else. My recent posts about Gerhard Ro..