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  • Trinity Debate: Sanders vs. Buzzard

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    A few years ago I was invited to engage in a public debate on the Trinity with an anti-trinitarian teacher named Anthony Buzzard. Professor Buzzard teaches that Jesus was nothing more than a human uniquely used by God. His theology is basically Socinian, and he teaches at Atlanta Bible College, which is not your average…

  • Graduation Celebration

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    You might want to study this one for a minute before I offer my interpretation of the drawing by a six year old. . Done? . Okay. It’s an American flag wearing a mortarboard, dancing and waving its hands. Its fingers are like bombs bursting in air, and its tassel is having a party of…

  • A Prayer for the Class of 2007

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    This is a prayer for the 2007 graduates of the Torrey Honors Institute, spoken at the commencement ceremony on May 25, 2007. Our Father in Heaven, we bring before you today these graduates of the Torrey Honors Institute. They have spent four years with us, talking and talking and talking. They have talked in seminar…

  • Remembering the Sinai Icon Show at the Getty

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    Here is a piece I wrote for a new journal called Atelier. It’s a review of the major icon show that was at the Getty Center this past year. The exhibit is long gone, but this review may help you get a sense of how great it was. Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from the…

  • Drafthorse/Clidestale

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    Artist: Freddy Age Six. Title: Drafthorse/Clidestale Size: 8 X 10 in (12 X 17 with frame) Medium: Magnetophoretic display screen (patented materials, commercially available) Provenance: Southern California Date: May 2007 Current Location: non-existent This image was produced and destroyed in the same Spring afternoon. The visual plane is divided into two long horizontal zones, each…

  • Butterfly Sorted

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    It’s awfully untidy of butterflies to mix and mingle all their colors, don’t you think? Phoebe Age Four does. So she sorted this one out for you. Purple dots go here, yellow up there, black over here, and green down in the– hey, what’s with the mixing of color dots down here in the lower…

  • Awaken in Us Childlike Reverence and Trust

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    Fred Sanders
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    The Heidelberg Catechism is one of the treasures of the Reformation. Written by Zacharius Ursinus (I call him Zacky Bear) and Kaspar Olevianus, it is 129 Q&A exchanges which guide you devotionally through the core of Christian doctrine. The last nine questions in the catechism unpack the meaning of every line of the Lord’s prayer.…

  • Evangelism Torrey-Style

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    This semester I had the privilege of leading a class on evangelism. It wasn’t my idea. A group of my students in the Torrey Honors Institute asked for a chance to give serious attention to evangelism, so I put together an elective seminar for them. In addition to covering the standard topics that have to…

  • To Be a Pilgrim: Reading Allegory Rightly

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    Fred Sanders
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    John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress has been one of the most popular books ever written in English. Samuel Johnson said it was one of only three books which make you wish it were even longer than it is (the others are Robinson Crusoe and Don Quixote). Vincent Van Gogh listed it along with the Bible and…

  • John 3:16’s Systematic Theology

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    Fred Sanders
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    You can wave it on a banner at a ball game or print it underneath your In-N-Out cup; John 3:16 is one of the most famous verses in the Bible. No matter how often I see it, no matter what kind of knuckle-head has stuck it to their bumper, no matter how isolated it is…

  • Mother's Day 1974

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    From the archives, circa 1974, we have a tribute to Mom by Freddie-Age-Six. Yes, these are drawings by Freddie-Age-Six-In-1974, father of Freddy-Age-Six-In-2007. The subject is Mom. The verdict is: “My Mom is nice. I like her.” This may seem like faint praise, but bear in mind that I wrote a whole book about my Mom…

  • The Outbursts of Everett True

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    Everett True was a cartoon character in the first couple decades of the twentieth century. He looked like some kind of middle class Winston Churchill, portly, bowler-hatted, and always armed with an umbrella. The joke in the Everett True comics –there was really only one joke– is that True didn’t put up with all the…