Matte Downey, Apr 6, 2016, 12:50 AM
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Last week, I passed the milestone of defending my doctoral dissertation (cheer), and since pretty much everyone on the planet was not... more
Matte Downey, Mar 7, 2016, 10:17 PM
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Let's start off with a little Greek lesson. The Greek word which we usually translate as grace is charis... more
Matte Downey, Feb 3, 2016, 10:35 PM
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Matte Downey, Jan 4, 2016, 11:17 PM
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My feline companion of over 17 years passed away last month and I am adjusting to a new... more
Matte Downey, Dec 9, 2015, 10:41 PM
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I have been reading Father James Martin's excellent book, Jesus: A Pilgrimage, which is a... more
Matte Downey, Nov 5, 2015, 12:14 AM
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Snapshot number one:
Last week I was in Vancouver for a series of lectures at Regent College and St. Mark's... more
Matte Downey, Oct 5, 2015, 9:33 PM
This past weekend I participated in the Canadian Evangelical Theological Association's fall conference at Tyndale University in Toronto. I had... more
Matte Downey, Sep 16, 2015, 7:39 PM
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This morning I attended a presentation on the topic of critical realism and how it connects theology and science... more
Matte Downey, Aug 3, 2015, 6:48 PM
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One of the biggest challenges in our faith community is making space for and involving our kids in spiritual... more
Matte Downey, Jul 13, 2015, 11:11 PM
I wrote a bit about my experience at the Vineyard USA Conference in Columbus, Ohio this past week. Here is the post as it appeared originally on my... more
Matte Downey, Jun 1, 2015, 7:50 PM
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In our culture, a name is mostly a means of identification, but in biblical times, a named told you something about a... more
Matte Downey, May 4, 2015, 9:34 PM
Theology is not black and white. It is not cut and dried, whatever that means (sounds a bit like beef jerky). For most of us, at some point, this... more