by Rich Hansen | Nov 2, 2018 | Worldview
Note to reader: I have spent far more time than usual on this article. It is also much longer than usual for me. Since the 2016 campaign, I have been baffled why so many evangelicals could help elect a man who speaks and behaves so contrary to the life and teaching...
by Rich Hansen | Oct 25, 2018 | Worldview
Eugene Peterson went home to his Lord this past Monday, October 22. I spent two weeks with Eugene at a retreat center in southern California in October 1989, where he taught “Spirituality and Ministry,” my first intensive course in my Doctor of Ministry program at...
by Rich Hansen | Sep 20, 2018 | Worldview
C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity describes the difference between bios and zoe, the two Greek words used in the New Testament for “life”: “The Biological sort which comes to us through Nature, and which (like everything else in Nature) is always tending to rundown and...
by Rich Hansen | Sep 13, 2018 | Worldview
Last year on my study leave in Oxford, England, every morning before heading to the library I attended a 7:30am Eucharist service in a side chapel of Christ Church cathedral. One morning as I was kneeling to receive communion, I noticed the sun streaming through a...
by Rich Hansen | Aug 2, 2018 | Worldview
Bios is one of two New Testament Greek words commonly translated “life.” Bios describes where we live. We see it everywhere. We live in a biosphere of delicately balanced natural forces. Biology dazzles us with the amazing complexity of living organisms and the...
by Rich Hansen | Jul 26, 2018 | Worldview
I was chatting with the contractor remodeling our basement about Arminianism versus Calvinism. (You never know when a theological discussion will pop up!) He has been having conversations with his brother (a Southern Baptist pastor) about doctrines like...
