Author: Fred Sanders
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Eat the Word of God
About one year ago, I wrote an article here about an old-fashioned method of Bible study that delivers more power than most other kinds of Bible study I’ve tried. The basic idea is to focus on one book, and read it repeatedly (but there are some helpful details worth enumerating). A few months later, Joe…
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Nifty Graphics are Good Arguments
We usually think of charts and graphs as presenting “just the facts,” but in reality every chart is biased. Charts are based on prejudices, advance judgments about what should be represented, what should be suppressed, and how the information should be displayed. When you look at a graphical display of information, you are getting the…
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Words Can’t Express the Emotions of Noses
Sometimes you look around at your dinner guests and think, “Here is a worthy group of cultured individuals. These people will appreciate the finest entertainment I can offer them. They are sophisticated, discerning, and uh, whaddayacallit, real classy.” On these occasions, I go to my special shelf and take down the book Pegasus Descending: A…
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The Mind of William Burt Pope (1822-1903)
William Burt Pope (1822-1903) was a great British Methodist theologian of the nineteenth century. In fact, I am coming to believe that he was the greatest doctrinal theologian ever to take up the task of teaching Christian theology from the point of view of the Wesleyan revival movement. A few months ago I found his…