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How to Tell What’s True from What’s False

SOMETIMES IT SEEMS WE’VE STEPPED THROUGH ALICE’S LOOKING GLASS into a world in which it’s become all but impossible to differentiate truth from lies and reality from wish fulfilling delusion. In this social context, Pilate’s question to Jesus (Jn. 18:38) becomes achingly relevant. What is truth, indeed? Who knows anymore, and how? In Paul’s first …

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The Tragic Irony of Knowing the Truth

THIS WEEK’S POST IS WILL BE A LITTLE DIFFERENT, a little more personal than usual. Here’s why. The online course I’m offering, “Jesus and the Feminine in the Gospel of John,” begins next week (see my note below). Although I’m offering it through my local church, the course is open to the public at large. …

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