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Penal Substitutionary Atonement: A Sub-biblical Distortion of the Gospel
As we approach passion week and the end of the Lenten season, I wanted to write about a topic that has long been important to me but which I have never systematically addressed: the doctrine of the atonement. The atonement is the doctrine that says that since Christ was crucified, died, was buried, descended to… Continue reading
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Why I am an (Anglo) Catholic.
I have a post published several years ago about why I am not a Roman Catholic. I largely concluded that I wasn’t a Roman Catholic (despite my affinity for RC liturgical practices and historic beauty) because I just could not assent to the necessary development of the monarchical episcopate. What I meant was that at… Continue reading
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Luke 22: A Lenten Reflection
I was listening to an episode of the Naked Bible Podcast the other day and they had on the show a guest who spent some time explaining the very enigmatic passage in Luke 22 when Jesus orders his disciples to purchase two swords and then, just a few verses later, orders them to put the… Continue reading
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Protected: Hurting with God: Post #2
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Protected: I Want To Be Healed (Introduction)
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My Personal Theology (updated March 2023)
It should surprise absolutely no one who knows me well that I spend way too much time putting myself and others in boxes. In fact, I once wrote a post in which I confessed the sin that is sometimes present in doing just that. In any case, since my return to historically orthodox Christian theology… Continue reading
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Independence Day
What a strange independence day. Unlike most of the bbq and firework and card game filled memories of previous July 4ths, this time America is under threat in a way it hasn’t been since 1918. Of course, in addition to the pandemic currently raging, we are in the midst of a societal reckoning around racism,… Continue reading
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Why Grammar?
Perhaps you’ve seen the meme floating around with a terrified grandma quaking beneath a sign that reads “let’s eat Grandma!” followed by a sign that reads “let’s eat, Grandma!” At the very bottom of the image we have the punch line: punctuation saves lives! With the single insertion of a comma, we are told, cannibalizing… Continue reading
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The Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians
Amanda got me the box set of the ESV Reader’s Bible for my birthday. They are the regular ESV translation but the typeset, the page thickness, and the binding all make the experience more like reading a normal book. And there are no chapter or verse divisions! Anyhow, rather than stopping to parse every verse,… Continue reading
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Servant of the Servants of God: Toward a Mutualist Ecclesiology
The article below is something I wrote recently defending my position that women are called to all offices in the church. I hope it proves edifying. Continue reading
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A Meaningless Pandemic
And behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him (Revelation 6:8). Since the onslaught of COVID-19 began, and since dramatic actions unseen in living memory (the closure of schools and businesses as well as the edicts of local and regional governing authorities, backed by the… Continue reading
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Never Forget
I was 11 years old and in the sixth grade. I heard the news at school but didn’t really understand. Kids kept being picked up by worried parents; rumors flew that Houston would be next. I got home that afternoon and sat in front of CNN until my parents got home while watching the planes–the footage… Continue reading
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Fall and the Coming Renewal (5)
Every year around this time I move from hating (but tolerating) the summer sun and heat to actively hating it. The reason for this (I surmise) is that this is the time of the year when school restarts, and it seems monstrous to me to have school starting while it is summer outside! In any… Continue reading
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Christian Marriage: Difference and Mutual Submission
Introduction I am writing this article to put forward an argument for mutual submission in marriage. I affirm that men and women are ontologically different from one another in complementary ways, but their differences do not justify a hierarchy in marriage. Before I dive in, I want to be clear about the following things: I… Continue reading
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Theodicy
The heart that beats against the prison bars of guilt and soured love and apathy must fail in pain before the cold that mars all teeming life, love, and harmony. For hearts are flesh and blood and soul divine, while cold metal is but the bones of earth and unyielding in its rigid design, stoic… Continue reading
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Letters to an 8th Grader: Erasmus Speaks with a Young Man
Dear ___________________, I am tremendously glad to hear that you have been changed by our exchange of letters. I have also been changed in many ways, not least by my own clearer articulation of why I do what I do. Before I wax sentimental (something I am prone to do), I wanted to briefly answer… Continue reading
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Letters to an 8th Grader: Learning in Community
Dear ___________________________, Your last letter to me ended with a fantastic question, though of course you are hinting at the answer yourself. You wondered why, if being proactive is so important, students should bother learning in a classroom setting. Surely, you suggest, learning would be far more efficient if it occurred on an individual basis… Continue reading
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Letters to an 8th Grader: Be Proactive
Dear _______________, I am glad that you found the letter on grading helpful. Yes, it may not take the sting out of a poor grade on a test or other assignment, but I am glad that it has given you some context for, and appreciation of, what the circled red number means at the top… Continue reading
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Letters to an 8th Grader: Grading is a Necessary Evil
Dear ______________, Yes, yes. I can see how my last letter to you seemed far to abstract for your appreciation. I didn’t mean to lose you, but I also didn’t mean to make it easy either. One should always be reaching out to grasp ideas just above our ability to reason well about them. Without… Continue reading
About Me
Gregory C. Jeffers
Anglican Christian | Husband | Father | Teacher | Scholar | Poet