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God's Love for You is Like a Mother's Love
The Bible uses images of God as a mother, in addition to images of God as a father, to help us understand how great God’s love is for us. Many people have anxiety-producing images of God as a stern disciplinarian. In the Bible, God uses images of being like a mother to express God’s intimate love and tenderness toward us.
Tom Faletti
5 days ago5 min read


Ugly Truths Our History Books Don’t Teach Us
This is the hardest article I have ever had to write. The second conclusion from my Civil Rights trip is that the treatment of Black people in American history was much uglier than most people know.
From slavery to Jim Crow and beyond, the textbooks mostly downplay our ugly truths with language that misses the suffering behind the words.
We cannot hide from the past any more than Adam and Eve could hide from God in the Garden. What was done must be acknowledged.
Tom Faletti
May 37 min read


Bible Quiz for Easter: What Do You Know about the Resurrection?
Take this 5-question quiz to see if you know what the Bible says about Jesus’s resurrection. Image by Pisit Hing, provided by Unsplash...
Tom Faletti
Apr 201 min read


Why Do Christians Believe in the Resurrection?
The Bible includes evidence for the resurrection of Jesus that was obtained from eyewitnesses, and today’s Christians experience his living presence now. Writing around 25 years after Jesus died and rose, Paul identifies a large number of people who saw the resurrected Jesus, some of whom he had talked with. It’s roughly the same as believing a book published today about events in the year 2000 (25 years ago) that includes eyewitness reports from people the author interviewed
Tom Faletti
Apr 185 min read


God’s Downside-Up View of the World
Our society sees through the eyes of billionaires and influencers. God sees from the perspective of the people at the bottom. A comparison.
Tom Faletti
Mar 224 min read


Did the Council of Nicaea Make Up the Idea that Jesus is God?
Actually, the first Christian documents – Paul’s letters to the Thessalonians – used language indicating that Jesus is God 275 years before the Council of Nicaea.
Tom Faletti
Mar 154 min read
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