Infertility has always been a problem, but it hasn’t been until recently that science and medicine have been able to do anything to counter it. NPR’s Morning Edition had a story of one family’s struggles to get pregnant. I hesitate to talk about this topic, due to the deep emotional troubles that are tied to [...]

2                                                                                  ? Faith?                                              Art? This week I have come back to the question of faith, Abraham, and the almost sacrifice of his son, Isaac. In my Romans class we have talked about chapter 4 which speaks specifically about the faith of Abraham. This brought out a very rich conversation about faith. For those interested, [...]

This week we will be looking the climax of the argument we saw last week, in the passage Romans 3:21-31 and also continuing on to look at Romans 4, the faith of Abraham, session 3 of Eisenbaum. Summary Paul’s discussion in Romans 4 shows Abraham to be the common ancestor of both Jewish Christians and [...]

I recently looked back to some old posts on Jake’s blog, where he is discussing/questioning Kierkegaard’s reading of Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac. I wish I could say I read through it all, but I was distracted/lost interest before I got very far. One question which jumped out at me was put to Jake by one [...]

this has been a weird week. most of my life in pretty dry and bland but this week has been full of crazy stuff. i hungout with a girl and later a friend of her’s monday night. it was nice but at the same time really boring. i’ve been stuck in the rut of never [...]