Mark provides an account of the Lord’s Supper that is concise and demands specific focus. Rather than blur that focus by reinserting the detail Mark has not included, we’ll reference what was known more widely and then consider what Mark thinks is the vital essence of Jesus’ provision of the bread and wine. For those …

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What happens when a society that never wants to talk about suffering, a society that believes all suffering can be cured by therapeutic means or socio-economic reordering, finds itself in a situation of suffering that there is no simple way to avoid? What happens when the church has largely mirrored society’s avoidance of suffering, and …

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