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What is Faith?

Faith –noun 1. confidence or trust in a person or thing: faith in another's ability. (Can apply to general people.) 2. belief that is not based on proof: He had faith that the hypothesis would be substantiated…
Defining Faith

By Will Green Faith is often said to be irrational and to involve believing in things against evidence or without evidence. But let's look at what the Bible says about faith. Hebrews 11:1: "Now faith is being sure of…
What It Means to Be Radical, and the Danger of Misusing the Word

"Nothing perpetuates ignorance worse than unenlightened enthusiasm," said Major Ian Thomas, one of my major influences in the Christian life. When Christians (or anyone, really) run around talking about things they have…
Jan Hus on the Church

Writing in 1413, Jan Hus laid out three definitions of what constitutes the church. First, the church is defined as the congregation of convocation of the faithful, understood as those who are faithful in the sense o…
What is Grace?

Among the terms of so-called "Christianese" is the concept of grace. The pithy description of grace is "unmerited favor" and it is often discussed with mercy. Mercy, being not getting what we do deserved, and in contra…