Speaking in Tongues and the Importance of the Bible So you want to learn about speaking in tongues, right? Or maybe you want to learn how to speak in tongues. Well, though you may be tempted to jump in, say a few tongue-twisters, work through the alphabet backwards until you start speaking in unknown syllables, […]
Published on June 6, 2014, at huffingtonpost.com/jack-levision. I expected the shock of an earthquake—not a shooting. In fact, they’re retrofitting our oldest building, Alexander Hall, to prevent earthquake damage. How do we retrofit Otto Miller Hall lobby, where yesterday’s shooting took place? Erase the memories? Sure, we can remove the blood-stained carpet, paint the blood-splattered […]
The Heart of Darkness [Job] has lost everything: his sons and daughters, his livelihood, his house, and now his health. He is all alone, scraping his wounds with the sharp-edged fragments of clay pots. Yet he is not alone. He is accompanied by friends, inquisitors really, who are keen to discuss with eerie dispassion how […]
Published at patheos.com/blogs/spiritchatter on November 1, 2013 I was sitting with my teaching assistant yesterday at a local coffee haunt near our campus. As we chatted amiably, I mentioned that her workload would be a heck of a lot more next term. “When I’m teaching,” I said. She cocked her head, looked puzzled, and said, […]
Published at patheos.com/blogs/spiritchatter on October 12, 2013 About a month ago, I paused with you to ponder humanity’s first breath, when God stooped and shadowed the face of adam, with knees planted in the mud, hands sinking in the soft, damp earth, lips to lips, mouth to mouth—and blew into Adam’s nostrils the breath of life. On the outskirts of […]
Mark Stevens conducted this excellent interview with Jack Levison, who has written an excellent book on the Holy Spirit and I’m posting the whole interview here with Mark’s permission. Interview with Jack Levison Mark – First of all let me congratulate you on your new book Fresh Air: The Holy Spirit for an inspired life. I know it has […]