• Reflecting on Yesterday | Posted by Mart De Haan on Jun 29 2008

    Yesterday’s post was upsetting to many of us. In some cases it shifted our focus from our agreement about Christ to disagreements among ourselves–or with “Charles”– over our relationship to Old Testament law.
    In retrospect, we don’t know what’s going on in “Charles” heart. He could be a brother who believes in Christ while being conflicted [...]

  • White Flag | Posted by Mart De Haan on Mar 21 2008

    Do you have just a minute? I’ll keep this short. I have a question I want to ask you? How can we possibly come together around the issues that divide us? There’s so much we increasingly disagree about. Yet that is a thought that set up me up for one of the most memorable experiences [...]

  • Our Crucifixion | Posted by Mart De Haan on Mar 20 2008

    Crucifixion was torture. Leather straps or spikes were used to hang a condemned man on a pole. Like a helpless animal tangled in a barbed wire fence, the victim could survive for days with excruciating pain. Death usually came by suffocation when, hanging by his hands, the victim lost the strength to draw another breath.
    Three [...]

  • A Shuffled Deck | Posted by Mart De Haan on Dec 01 2007

    Life is like a game of cards. We have to work with what we’re dealt.
    But what happens if we make up the rules as we go along? What if we assume that there is no real order or purpose to the shuffled deck of circumstance?
    Questions like these were raised in 1990, when American educator and [...]

  • Missing Prophecies | Posted by Mart De Haan on Jun 01 2007

    Is it possible that followers of Christ have overstated the case for fulfilled prophecy?
    Like many others, I grew up hearing that one of the strongest reasons for believing in Jesus is that He fulfilled hundreds of predictions in the Jewish Scriptures. Years later I found myself wondering where most of those prophecies were. More often [...]

  • Aesop | Posted by Mart De Haan on Apr 01 2007

    Until recently, I thought of Aesop as an ancient Dr. Seuss.Then I started reading his fables. What surprised me is that his stories about talking animals, birds, and insects aren’t just for children. As an adult, I found that many of Aesop’s fables parallel or at least reinforce moral insights of the Bible.
    Aesop’s history is [...]