by Don Veinot | Mar 24, 2011 | Atheism, Atonement, Culture Driven Church, Emerging Church, General
Rob Bell has certainly ratcheted up the question of eternity in Christian and secular discussion with his book Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived . Many know that when I was younger I was an atheist and came to faith once...
by Ron Henzel | Aug 6, 2009 | Atonement
“Everybody Loves a Lover,” sang Doris Day. Perhaps this explains why the medieval romance carried on by correspondence between a monk and a nun nearly nine centuries ago continues to cast its hypnotic spell on artists and audiences across the ages of pages...
by Ron Henzel | Jul 2, 2009 | Atonement
It was the high noon of the Middle Ages, the 11th century (ad 1001 to 1100). Although closer to completion than ever, the project of establishing a “Christian Europe” was still a work in progress. Like it or not, the middle 1,000 years or so of church...
by Ron Henzel | Jun 25, 2009 | Atonement
Back in the 19th century, in London’s Central Criminal Court (also known as the Old Bailey), a witness might be asked the question, “What kind of night was it?” And it was considered neither odd nor impertinent for the response to come back, “It was a dark...
by Ron Henzel | Jun 18, 2009 | Atonement
I like things to be simple. I like them to be clear. What can I say? I’m a simple guy. I prefer bullet points to paragraphs, illustrations to explanations, and maps to directions. I prefer monosyllabic Anglo-Saxon words (like “ask,”...
by Ron Henzel | May 28, 2009 | Atonement
I was in second grade at St. Christopher’s School in Midlothian, Illinois. The ink was still drying on the documents of the Second Vatican Council in Rome and I was preparing for my First Holy Communion in the Catholic church with about 30 to 40 other children...
