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Anthony Parrott
Reading the Bible for Love and Liberation
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Someone recently asked me about my calling to ministry and whether I had any advice for people thinking about seminary. Here's what I told them with a few additional thoughts. When I Wanted to Be Famous I'm one of those really fortunate people in that I
There's nothing quite like emailing your church bookkeeper and saying, "Hey, pay me less." You'd think writing an email instructing someone to reduce your would feel dramatic, maybe even noble. It doesn't. It feels like admitting defeat. Like the financial version of
💡This is Day/Week 9 of my devotional series on "20 Verses to Rebuild Your Theology." I'm particularly proud of this one, so I'm sending it out to all my readers today. However, if you want access to the rest of the series, you
Part 2: Some Ground Rules We've established who God is—love itself, characterized by patience, kindness, gentleness, and all the fruits of the Spirit. We've seen that Jesus is the clearest revelation of divine character, that fear has no place in authentic faith, and that truth
Seeing the Lamb's victory, recognizing its literary artistry, holding its temporal tensions, grounding it in Scripture, and receiving its pastoral comfort
"You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." — John 8:32 The Great Protestant Irony There's a particular irony baked into Protestant history we need to talk about. The Reformation kicked off with this revolutionary idea: we're saved by grace
Ten Easy Steps
Is growing to and maintaining a larger size of church simply more likely to require relying more on coercion, authoritarianism, and control?
"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly." — John 10:10 In 2018, my brother died in a car accident. I had performed his wedding just two years before. And much of his church'