Our Friends in Lima, Peru

You and I, this whole community, have some friends in Lima.  You’ve probably never met them, but they are there, trying their best to carry out God’s word in a city that is marginally Catholic and mostly Babylonian.  I thought you might enjoy seeing some pictures of the churches where I taught.  One was a converted…

South Africa Journal

Great times teaching in South Africa.  Five different locations.  Lots of good people all hungry to learn.  And then we took a few days to see some of the other special inhabitants of this country.  That gave me an idea.  Would you be interested in a special safari where we saw the wildlife early in…

Paul and Paradigms

Anders Runesson’s paper[1] on the influence of paradigm assumptions for understanding Paul is a treasury of insights into the structure of paradigms. Runesson shows that the Christian assumption present in the theological paradigm that Paul established a new religion founded on the teaching of Christ, a religion that was opposed to “Jewish legalism,” is not…