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Listen to the Podcast: The Call of Abraham (Story of Scripture Episode 2) Let’s start with a question: How have you understood the story of the Bible? Do you move right from the fall of humanity in Genesis 3 to the coming of Jesus? There are hundreds of pages and years between Genesis 3 and…
Continue reading ➞ The Call of Abraham (Story of Scripture 2)
Don’t like to read? You can listen to this post as a podcast by going here: Ancient Pathways with Dave Hershey. You can also find this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. Two years ago I began training as a Life Coach and one of the assignments in the first class I took was…
Continue reading ➞ The Story of Scripture 1 – Welcome and Introduction
This is the second post in a series on Christianity, Nationalism and White Supremacy. You can read the first post here. Growing up, we had American flags in the front of our church. It wasn’t until years later that I saw something deeply wrong with that. Looking back, what we were taught it meant to…
1. What a Week!2. The Early Church and Plagues3. Julian the Apostate's Implicit Christianity4. On Belief and Action5. A Brief Tangent on Money6. What Does it Even Look Like to Live Like Jesus7. Conclusions8. Questions 1. What a Week!This has been quite an exciting few weeks. Two weeks ago I fired off a newsletter, sharing…
Continue reading ➞ Thoughts on Christian Living During an Epidemic
Here are my top 10 9 books. I went with 9 because I mention a bunch of other books that were also my favorite within my brief summaries. 1. Dominion by Tom Holland - This is my favorite book of the year, and also the final book I finished this year. Holland has been one…
This book was Tolkien's life's work. It was not released until after his death, put together by his son Christopher. I call it the Old Testament of Middle Earth. While it is not as exciting as the Hobbit, or even as fast-paced as Lord of the Rings (which is itself a bit slow at times)…
Continue reading ➞ #10 – The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien (My 100 Favorite Books)
The Harry Potter series is a modern classic. There have been other books since that were incredibly popular (Twilight, The Hunger Games), but I'd argue that none of them will have the staying power that I predict Harry Potter will. The series is entertaining and imaginative. One of the best things is the way it…
Continue reading ➞ #11 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (My 100 Favorite Books)
“I can only answer the question “What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?” That quote is from Alasdair Macintyre's brilliant book on moral philosophy, After Virtue. Macintyre traces the attempts to create a universal moral ethic after the fall…
Continue reading ➞ #12 – After Virtue by Alasdair Macintyre (My 100 Favorite Books)
Growing up, I was taught that Jesus had died for my sins so I could go to heaven when I died. As for what to do once you believed and were assured your spot on the other side of the pearly gates? Well, that was a bit more hazy beyond reading the Bible and praying…
Continue reading ➞ #13 – The Crucified God by Jurgen Moltmann (My 100 Favorite Books)
When I read this book, I described it to someone as a symphony where there is more going on then the average listener is getting. I recall asking my friend who recommended it if he understood what Hart was saying in the first 150 pages. In those pages, Hart is going deep into philosophy and…
Continue reading ➞ #14 – The Beauty of the Infinite by David Bentley Hart (My 100 Favorite Books)
