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JESSE JACKSON AT CALVIN SEMINARY
JESSE JACKSON AT CALVIN SEMINARY When I was a seminary student, the late Jesse Jackson came to speak. In my memory, likely faulty, it was my first year at Calvin Theological Seminary, placing Jackson’s appearance in late 1968 or early 1969. Only months before, April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.…
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SABBATH IN A TIME OF GREED: IN PRAISE OF LIMITS
Limits In a fine new book on the Sabbath (Israel’s Day of Light and Joy: The Origin, Development, and Enduring Meaning of the Jewish Sabbath. Eisenbraun’s, 2024), Jon Levenson lingers on Exodus 23:10-12. The passage begins with the sabbatical year: Six years you shall farm your land and gather its produce. For the seventh you…
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TAKING EVIL SERIOUSLY
RETRIEVING A BIBLICAL VIEW OF EVIL We who grew Reformed pride ourselves in taking evil seriously. Total depravity, and all that. The doctrine of total depravity does make us wary of anyone who claims too much righteousness. We were taught that pious talk often serves as a cover for dishonorable motives. We expect people, religious…