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  • Chris Mitchell Interview: "To Relate our Learning of the Faith to our Learning of the World"

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    Fred Sanders
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    Biola’s Torrey Honors Institute has just announced the hiring of Dr. Chris Mitchell, who will begin teaching at Torrey next fall. As one of the members of the search committee that selected Chris, I’ve had the chance to get to know him over the past few months, and I am excited about adding him to…

  • Only the Lonely

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    Melissa Schubert
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    I happened to be re-reading Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment the same weekend that we hosted a recruiting event for the Torrey Honors Institute. As I spent time reflecting on my membership in this learning community, I noticed the stark contrast of the radical isolation that Raskolnikov suffers. Dostoevsky’s Raskolnikov is an intellectual and an idealist,…

  • The Cow is Happy; Not So the Fish

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    Fred Sanders
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    Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact was a Roman Catholic comic book that ran every two weeks from 1946 to 1972, and contained a little bit of everything.  Here are two panels from a Lent feature. Treasure Chest generated so much content that it was bound to be uneven. This particular story is striking, I…

  • Pictographic Catechism from the Andes

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    Fred Sanders
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    It’s not exactly a comic book, but there is an old catechism that certainly makes an interesting use of sequential images for the purposes of teaching Christian doctrine. The Huntington Free Library in the Bronx published a facsimile edition of a “pictographic Quechua catechism” that is a wonderful and engaging little booklet. Here is the page…

  • Evangelism with Dempfey and Theo

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    Fred Sanders
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    This is a gospel tract I designed, an evangelism tool. Well, it’s not so much an evangelism tool as a “how to think well about evangelism” tool, not to be used in presenting the gospel but instead to be used as a spur to think through the dynamics of evangelism. It was originally printed as…

  • What Stephen Saw, We Hear

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    Fred Sanders
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    At the very beginning of the Christian church, before it was ever called “Christian” or often called “church,” it was a large group of new believers in Jesus gathered in Jerusalem, figuring things out as they went along. They were learning how to be disciples of a Lord who, having ascended into heaven, could no…

  • Cats Superbowl Party

    Cats Superbowl Party

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    Fred Sanders
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    Downstairs: A well-dressed reveler arrives, as previous guests doff exo-togs at a handy hat rack. Climbing a ladder to the second floor, partiers pile up on at least two chairs to watch the big game. I count at least a dozen there. Snacks are on the third floor, and the board groans under these lavish…

  • Three Vintage Posts on Hebrews

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    Fred Sanders
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    As I launch into a semester of teaching Hebrews and a year of hearing it preached, I wanted to exhume these 3 Scriptorium posts I wrote in late 2010, the last time I taught a class on the book. By the way, the little title logo I made for this series takes the first page…

  • When to Read Hebrews

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    Fred Sanders
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    (Reposted from 2010) Hebrews is a book of the Bible for people in hard times. Should you read it now, or later? In terms of the book’s actual background, we don’t know much for certain about the situation of those who first heard these words. There are dark suggestions of hardship in a few verses of chapter…

  • Hebrews Out Loud

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    Fred Sanders
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    The book of Hebrews seems to have been written for the ear. Or, if that claim is true, perhaps it should be made in this form: the sermon to the Hebrews was designed to be spoken aloud. The author of Hebrews frequently uses words that indicate he is thinking of the sermon as oral speech…

  • "Behold Your God!" LABTS Men's Conference Saturday

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    Fred Sanders
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    This Saturday there’s a great conference for men in Los Angeles. It’s organized by the Los Angeles Bible Training School, which I believe is the best Bible Institute in Los Angeles. The conference theme is “Behold Your God!” because all the teaching will be about the character and attributes of God.  Often, a conference for…

  • LATC 2014: Advancing Trinitarian Theology

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    Fred Sanders
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    The first annual Los Angeles Theology Conference was a big success, and now we are moving forward with plans for future LATC meetings. Here are our topics for the next four years: 2014: Trinity 2015: Atonement 2016: Pneumatology 2017: Dogmatics I’ll announce more details about each of those themes in due course. But we can…