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Short essays on reading Scripture slowly, honest questions about the Christian life, and devotional reflections. Newest first.
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Reading Ruth slowly
Ruth looks like a small domestic story tucked between the wars. Read slowly, it turns out to be about loyal love, a redeemer, and the family line that leads to Jesus.
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Joy as a practice
Joy is not the same as a sunny temperament or a good week. Scripture treats it as something both commanded and given — rooted in Christ rather than in how things happen to be going.
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Praying the Psalms
Most of us assume prayer has to be made up fresh each time, in our own words. The Psalms are God-given words for the days when you have none of your own.
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What 'faith' actually means
Faith is not a leap in the dark or wishful thinking. What the Bible means by faith — trust placed in someone proven trustworthy — and why its object matters more than its strength.
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Reading Exodus slowly
Exodus is not a law book with a dramatic opening. It is a rescue story that the rest of the Bible keeps retelling. A short guide to reading it as the night God brought his people out — and the rescue Jesus leads.
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Reading John 1 slowly
Eighteen verses at the start of John's Gospel that contain the clearest single statement in scripture about who Jesus is. A slow read of the prologue.
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Sin, plainly
A word that has shrunk in modern usage to mean a list of bad behaviours. Recovering the biblical meaning of sin — and why it is bigger, sadder, and more hopeful than the moralistic version.
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Reading the Bible with someone else
The Bible was almost never read alone for most of its history. A short case for shared reading — the simplest, most underused practice that grows a Christian's understanding.
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Forgiveness as freedom
Forgiveness is one of the hardest things Christianity asks. It is also one of its most practical gifts — not for the offender, but for the one doing the forgiving.
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The image of God
One short phrase in Genesis 1 that quietly redefines what a human is. A short essay on what it means that humans bear the image of God — and why it changes how we treat each other.