Evil • dwight j. friesen

On Earth as in Heaven?

Over the past week, cities across the United States have erupted with protests and riots in response to recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions—particularly in Los Angeles, where tensions boiled over after a series of aggressive raids. These aren’t

admin June 11, 2025June 11, 2025

Learning from Recent Church History

Mike Cosper and a talented team at Christianity Today’s CT Podcasts have produced series exploring “The Rise & Fall of Mars Hill.” As you likely know, Mars Hill Church was planted in 1996 and pastored by Mark Driscoll in Seattle

Dwight J. Friesen September 23, 2021November 4, 2021

What Now!?!

Yesterday’s acts of deadly violence executed by some extremist Trump supporters who stormed the Nation’s Capitol is egregious to say the least. But the idea that some those people were trying to justify their actions by claiming that Jesus Christ

Dwight J. Friesen February 7, 2021November 24, 2021

marbled in a gray world

To live in the world is to live with shadows, even more it is to create shadows. In a universe that revolves around a sun, to live is to cast shadows. As objects living in relation to light we are

Dwight J. Friesen May 9, 2006September 22, 2022

more on batman

I want to say a bit more regarding yesterday’s batman no more post. Bruce Wayne was certainly striving to be compassionate, in fact Batman’s compassion one of the key themes of the film. Liam Neesson’s character saw Bruce Wayne’s compassion

Dwight J. Friesen June 25, 2005May 8, 2022

the possibility of evil, God declares is good

Yesterday while reading the early pages of the Genesis account of God’s acts of creation I noticed something that until now I haven’t seen, or least hadn’t been able to receive. As you may remember from the creation accounts there

Dwight J. Friesen October 15, 2004November 25, 2022

to reverse evil is to live

The Beloved Disciple records many of Christ’s statements of self and mission like his “I am…” and “I have come…” declarations. One of these is recorded in the tenth chapter of the John’s Gospel. It is here we witness Christ

Dwight J. Friesen October 9, 2004May 6, 2022

toward the fulfillment of evil in Christ

In last night’s in Thinking Theologically class a we were looking at God as Creator. And side-tracked into an excellent conversation about the origin of evil, and whether or not God creates evil. Did spoken language exist prior to God’s

Dwight J. Friesen October 8, 2004May 6, 2022

Created Not to Know?

My friend Jacob popped by for a few minutes today – I really love it when friends drop by especially unannounced – always a nice surprise. And he tells me about a conversation he was having while mountain climbing with

Dwight J. Friesen August 26, 2004January 15, 2021

Mislabeled?

I’m wondering whether we may have mislabeled Genesis chapter 3. We commonly refer to this the events of this narrative as “the fall.” Fall frames it pretty I wondering what might happen if rather than viewing that narrative as a

Dwight J. Friesen August 10, 2004November 27, 2022

“Fall”owing up to Yesterday’s Post

Ok, creation is good… God even said so. Though God seemed to make a slight oversight God caught it and fixed it before anyone really noticed. 🙂 I didn’t mean to suggest the Eden was anything less than paradise. It

Dwight J. Friesen October 3, 2003November 18, 2022

Fall-Forward

What would happen if we revisioned our theology of the “fall.” Clearly our creation accounts indicate that all was not perfect before the fall, (God even declares it is not all good…) in chapter two of Genesis… it is not

Dwight J. Friesen October 2, 2003November 18, 2022

Church Covers Up Priests’ Abuse

The story that broke in Boston yesterday about the Roman Catholic Church’s intentional cover-up of ongoing sexual abuse of children by priest(s) makes me feel sick and angry. All those kids being violated is nothing short of evil. And to

Dwight J. Friesen January 7, 2002October 7, 2022

Irreversible

1975 was a big year for me. “Saturday Night Live” premiered. I started the first grade. Jaws came out, and I learned a new word. 1975 was the year that my dad’s dad, my grandfather was diagnosed with cancer. It

Dwight J. Friesen January 22, 2001October 22, 2022