Epstein Secrets

escribed as to hear God "speak." Dallas Willard, a beloved evangelical's intellectual, puts it baldly: that God's face-to-face conversations with Moses are the "normal human life God intended for us." I conducted ethnographic fieldwork at a church that exemplifies this approach to God, a Vineyard

nathan Edwards, Sermons and Discourses, 1739- 1742, ed. Harry S. Stout and Nathan O. Hatch, with Kyle P. Farley, The Works of Jonathan Edwards 22 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003). 404-18. Social scientific analysis of the relation between anthropomorphism and religion is summarized by Steward

Eve defying God and eating the forbidden fruit of knowledge; Abraham chastising God for threatening to sweep away the innocent along with the guilty; Moses imploring God to change his mind about destroying the “stiff-necked” Jewish people. My favorite Justices of the Supreme Court are the dissenters. My

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the sacred group of math, science, Eng- lish, economics, and history because everyone seems to think that the big five were handed down on tablets to Moses. And everyone is sure that their favorite subject is the most impor- tant one, be it history, literature, math, or science. Math and science are hav

a in the 1970s—I met him as an undergrad in Madison, WI. I attended his graduate seminars in Madison and spent a lot of time with him while he was in New Haven. He guest-conducted the Hartford Symphony (where I now work) twice in the past few years. (He is 83 now.) I spent hours and hours in “lab orchestra”

is described as to hear God “speak.” Dallas Willard, a beloved evangelical’s intellectual, puts it baldly: that God’s face-to-face conversations with Moses are the “normal human life God intended for us.” I conducted ethnographic fieldwork at a church that exemplifies this approach to God, a Vineyard Chr

Jonathan Edwards, Sermons and Discourses, 1739- 1742, ed. Harry S. Stout and Nathan O. Hatch, with Kyle P. Farley, The Works of Jonathan Edwards 22 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), 404-18. ' Social scientific analysis of the relation between anthropomorphism and religion is summarized by Steward E