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Barb Terpstra
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Rather than waiting for illness to overtake them, these Christians were actively involved in their own dying, in control—to the extent possible—of the dying process. Injured at the death of a fellow Christian, the church community then
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“Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.”
― First Frost
― First Frost
“Hate sometimes stands quite close to love. God too stands often near to evil—like silent chessmen—side by side. Only the color of the squares is different.”
― The Singer Trilogy
― The Singer Trilogy
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“I have remembered this episode for a long time because it so clearly illustrates the confusion we are in. We think of sin as a series of misdeeds, but in Biblical theology it is a condition.”
― Help My Unbelief
― Help My Unbelief
“Religion, being a human construct, allows
people to create a God after their own image instead of the other way round.”
― Help My Unbelief
people to create a God after their own image instead of the other way round.”
― Help My Unbelief
Q&A with Nafisa Haji, author of The Writing on My Forehead
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Join me for a discussion of my novel The Writing on My Forehead , which is being released in paperback in March. The Q&A will start on Monday, Marc ...more
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