One of my favorite theological concepts to study is eschatology. Eschatology, or the study of “last things,” centers around what we as Christians believe will happen at the end of time, what happens to our souls and bodies after death, and what the afterlife might look like. While the questions that eschatology asks may seem […]
One thing that I have done, to keep my sanity throughout seminary is to read novels. Thanks to a very good recommendation from Josh I just finished The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, which can be described as a poetic Harry Potter meets The Lord of the Rings. In The Name of the […]
The Debt, starring Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington and Tom Wilkinson, is a movie that is not easy to forget. Not only because it involves Jewish Mossad spies hunting Nazis in the 60’s around Berlin, not only because there are moments that are unbearably creepy, but because The Debt is a perfect recipe for reconciliation. And yet there is […]
Our Theology/Ethics class has been studying and discussing different theories of atonement. My group looked into the Nonviolent Atonement theory, which is based in narrative Christus Victor. Almost all atonement theories have something beneficial to add to the conversation. This poem is my attempt to bring out what’s compelling in Nonviolent Atonement. Christus Victor by […]
I really should not watch zombie movies anymore. I had never really found them all that frightening. That is until I was driving under a fairly long tunnel on my way to Bellevue and had a flashback to the tunnel scene in 28 Days Later (not to be confused with the movie 28 Days). I […]