2021 was the fourth year I’ve kept this blog, and what a year it's been! Thanks to all of you who have joined me here! As the year winds down, I thought I’d take a few minutes to share the most popular new posts from the past year, along with a few of the year’s … Continue reading Best of the Blog, 2021
Regular readers will know that I take my end of year very seriously. I treat my process of looking back at the year that was and ahead to the year that is approaching as a sacred practice and it turns into one of the richest times of my year. If you are interested in taking … Continue reading Year-End Practices (Reprise)
I started 2021 with a fair bit of trepidation. It was hard to know what to expect from the year since 2020 had disrupted so much we had so long taken for granted as a society. Steeling myself for what was shaping up to be another difficult year, my theme entering 2021 was “Into the … Continue reading A Year in the Wilderness: A Personal Reflection on 2021
A few weeks ago, some graffiti started appearing in my part of the city that reads, "The art you see is the signs of the times." It reminded me of a great art exhibit I once saw of work from the 1910s, and how jarring and apocalyptic the images became during those years, not only … Continue reading Signs of the Times: LOOK
For the past couple of weeks I've been writing about the nature of sacrifice in the Bible, and how it relates to different ideas of sin and salvation. So far we've seen that the picture is a lot more complicated than the traditional Western Christian ideas of substitutionary atonement would suggest. The Scriptures of both … Continue reading Sacrifice in Romans 3.21-26
Matthew Root 