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Anti-fragile Faith in Chaotic Times

“This is the epitome of the stories that seem far too ugly to be in the Bible. This is not trickery of treachery at its most abysmal. It should be sai

“If you only look at us , you might well miss the brightness. We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our ordinary lives.

Augustine was disappointed when he read the NT for the first time.

“Abram again show little understanding of the nature of God. In imagining his relationship with God as exclusive, he denies respect to these strangers

“Questions about the covenant of Abraham that complicate its meaning arise from its very beginning. For example, the sign of the covenant is circumcis

“This is the epitome of the stories that seem far too ugly to be in the Bible. This is not trickery of treachery at its most abysmal. It should be sai

“But rationalizing what God does involves the risk of losing its difficulty and otherness to human expectations. His great forgiveness of the first cr