Observations: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Observations The last time I read Justo Gonzalez’s two volume Church History was decades ago. As he revised and updated the set in the last ten years, I thought they would be worth another...
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When God Says No: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
When God Says No They call your name. A plastic band is placed on your wrist after you have confirmed your name and date of birth. Led to a room with a bed, you...
Priorities: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Priorities It was always the same. Whenever I taught a course on Early Church History, I began the first lecture with the following paragraph: “From the time of the apostles until the time of...
Square Pegs, Round Holes and Decoder Rings: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Square Pegs, Round Holes and Decoder Rings America is not ancient Israel. America is not the Church. The most the United States can claim is that it was a quasi-Christian country by culture until...
A Watching World…: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
A Watching World… In looking through early church history, it is clear that Christians have responded to numerous pandemics. Indeed, there are some historians who have suggested that the second century Antonine Plague (also...
Jonestown: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Jonestown It reminds me of Jonestown… in slow motion. The elements seem the same. Most people don’t know that Jim Jones was from Indiana and that the first People’s Temple was here in...
Christian Character: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Christian Character Whatever happened to Christian character? It used to mean a great deal. With regard to individuals we might describe character as “the particular combination of qualities in a person or place that...
Another Chapter: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Another Chapter I went to see a doctor this morning in order to hear the results of some recent tests. I came home a bit shaken. It is not that the tests indicated my...
Self-Deception: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Self-Deception Deception is all around us. It permeates political discourse on an almost daily basis. Deception has created a crisis in the arena of public health as people try to sort out who to...
Summer Reading: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Summer Reading This year, owing to the pandemic, spring seemed to slide effortlessly into summer. In terms of my summer reading, it has meant a bit of a delay in terms of my regular...
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