by Mark Farnham | Jun 22, 2010 | Christian Life, Church History, Theology
For Tertullian the singular mark of patience is not endurance or fortitude but hope. To be impatient, says Tertullian, is to live without hope. Patience is grounded in the Resurrection. It is life oriented toward a future that is God’s doing, and its sign is...
by Mark Farnham | Jun 21, 2010 | Christian Life, Culture, Theology
I had the great fortune (okay, providence) to have my transplant surgery just a week before the start of the FIFA World Cup. Besides thrice daily walks, I spend most of my days recovering in my recliner reading and playing cards with my kids. My television happens to...
by Mark Farnham | Jun 18, 2010 | Christian Life, Culture
I was sitting in Starbucks the other day when I saw three very attractive young women walk in together. They appeared to be in their late teens or early twenties, and could very well have been supermodels. But that is not what caught my attention. What I noticed...
by Mark Farnham | Jun 17, 2010 | Church History, Theology
From The Spirit of Early Christian Thought by University of Virginia history professor Robert Louis Wilken (Yale, 2003), xvi-xvii (with commentary): The notion that the development of early Christian thought represented a hellenization [“Greekification”] of...
by Mark Farnham | Jun 16, 2010 | Biblical Studies, Christian Life, Theology
If anyone ever had a reason to pity-himself, it was the Apostle Paul. His fall from premier Pharisee in Israel to persecuted apostle is fantastic. His sufferings are recounted in 2 Corinthians 11, and they are as significant as any Christian in all of church history....
