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As Christmas draws near, I want to comment of the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation, drawing from the first two essays in the latest issue of Christianity Today (Russell Moore, “All I want for Christmas is a time machine”; Deborah Haarsma, “The Incarnation sheds light on Astrophysics”). My first three posts about Christmas date to 2011, 2012 and finally 2013…
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I would not have written this post had I not been part of a foursome virtual book club. One of these friends from my 1970s seminary days in the Boston area had been reading a book by award-winning author specialized in early American history (four awards, including being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize): Nathaniel Philbrick’s In the Eye of…
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The Rev. Thomas J. Reese became a Jesuit priest in 1964 after earning a PhD political science at UC Berkeley, but he has mostly served as a journalist and academic. I find his pieces in Religious News Service consistently informing and thought provoking—including this one from a couple of months ago, “Amos, a prophet for social justice, is a prophet…
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I end this series of eight posts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the prospects of ending it by framing the issue theologically. I am a Christian theologian, after all, and I spent my second career researching and writing about Muslim-Christian dialogue. And since the first and greater part of the Bible is the Old Testament, or the Hebrew Bible, and…

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