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Exploring Intimate Theology

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Cultural creep

The Impact of Intimate Theology

August 18, 2021 by Sam Williamson

A few years ago, I met with a pastor of a church near a large campus. As the university grew in prestige, it attracted thousands of international …

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Exposing the Cataracts of Nonsense

February 17, 2021 by Sam Williamson

I lived on a communal farm in Israel the summer of 1978. It was my first extended visit to another country. From May through August, I lived among a …

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What About That GTO?

June 11, 2019 by Sam Williamson

When I grew up in Detroit, the population was over 1,200,000 people. I spent the next forty years living in Ann Arbor, population of about 120,000. …

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Our Future Is Our Past

May 14, 2019 by Sam Williamson

Ten years ago I read a study asking people to list their earliest memories of world news. The survey intrigued me, but I wanted to see for myself. So …

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Do We Know What We Worship?

April 16, 2019 by Sam Williamson

In 1930, legendary economist John Maynard Keynes wrote an essay about our future lifestyle in the twenty-first century. He predicted that industrial …

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When You Lie …

April 9, 2019 by Sam Williamson

My sister Sarah went to a small college where real professors taught the classes. Her history advisor was Professor Petrovich. He was born in …

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Torches of Freedom

April 2, 2019 by Sam Williamson

Four score and eleven years ago—in 1928—George Washington Hill had a problem: he wanted more women to smoke cigarettes. But smoking was scorned as a …

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Your Lovers Will Despise You

March 26, 2019 by Sam Williamson

During its first fifteen years, my software company only worked with domestic clients. In the late nineties, we landed Oxford University Press (a …

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Gifts and Gods

February 5, 2019 by Sam Williamson

When I fly, I never talk to the person next to me. I sit quietly and read a book while they sit quietly and watch a video, just as God ordained …

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Shut Down by a Sneer

December 4, 2018 by Sam Williamson

Six weeks ago, I flew back from a Hearing God retreat in Seattle. I sat next to a young man—thirty-ish—who was returning home from a job interview. He …

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Invaded

October 24, 2018 by Sam Williamson

Growing up, I had two close friends: one came from a devout, Christian family, and the other came from a devout, atheist family. One family went to …

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Spiritual but Not Religious

February 13, 2018 by Sam Williamson

Fifteen years ago, I was dining alone in New York City when I overheard a Christian woman ask a friend for dating advice. She had met two men on …

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I write Beliefs of the Heart to grow our intimacy with God, to help us all examine our deepest heart-beliefs. I am an orthodox believer, meaning my theology is consistent with Christian beliefs through the centuries. In fact, I believe that our current cultural moment clouds our beliefs, so we must continually examine our current,

 fashionable beliefs–which are often unquestioned–in light of scriptural truth. I live in Brooklyn, MI, USA, with my wife. We have four grown children and an ever increasing number of grandchildren.

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