I was struck by the following comment made by a student from Myanmar who is enrolled in one of my courses:  “In my country people are dying because they cannot get the vaccine; in yours people are dying because they will not take it.”

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A new review of Minding the Web has recently been posted on the Reading Religion website sponsored by the American Academy of Religion.  The review, written by Calida Chu, a doctoral student at the University of Edinburgh, can be accessed here.

“The good news is we do not get to be our own judge. We do not get to determine what our sins may be. The devil, the great tempter, would have us believe that we should want to be like that false god, who we assume to be self-sufficient, self-affirming, self-desiring, the supreme be­ing, self-centered and rotating about himself. The problem, of course, is that he is not the God who has come to us in Jesus Christ. That God—the God that has come to us in Christ—is sufficient to Himself, but that suf­ficiency is the love that has constituted the life of the Trinity from all eternity. Our sin, quite simply, is our refusal to be loved by such a God.”¹ Continue reading Sin, What it Is and What It’s Not (Series on “Minding the Web”) →