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Year 2020 in Review: It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times

2021-02-27 by Todd Leave a Comment

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The year 2020 will be a milestone in history and a milestone for many people who lived through it. For me personally, it was a year of profound crisis but also a year of new ministry opportunities.

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Has Anyone Ever Read Genesis 1 Like this Before?

2020-12-28 by Todd 1 Comment

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Hasn’t the church always read the creation account in Genesis 1 as a straightfoward narrative? Haven’t Christians always believed that the earth is relatively young and that the creation days were twenty-four hour days? How do I just up and think I can read this text anyway I want to? Where has the Holy Spirit been all these years?

Todd Patterson

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Merry Christmas 2020 from the Pattersons (video)

2020-12-12 by Todd 7 Comments

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What a year! At this time last year we had no idea what 2020 had in store and I think most of us feel like 2021 can’t possibly be worse (and, at the same time, that it very well might be!).

Despite all the trials of 2020, the social distancing for the holidays, and the uncertainties ahead, we wish you a peace that passes understanding during this holiday season and all of 2021.

Immanuel!

God is with us!

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How Can the Creation Account in Genesis 1 be Both History and Literature?

2020-10-16 by Todd Leave a Comment

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In my posts on Genesis 1 I say that the creation account is history and that it is literature. Is it possible to cross the impassable divide? At first, it seems the obvious answer is no. Historical fiction, after all, even though it’s cast in a real historical setting, is still fiction.

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Filed Under: muse Tagged With: bible, creation, genesis, historiography, history, literal, literalistic, literature, poetics, science

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Reading Genesis 1 as Literature and Three Problems it Creates for Evangelicals

2020-09-15 by Todd Leave a Comment

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Evangelicals often read the creation account in Genesis 1 as straightforward history but I’ve been suggesting that we need to pay attention to the literary features of the text and its ancient Near Eastern background. The text is historical narrative, I affirm, but also literary and figurative. This raises three questions that we need to address.

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The Little Girl with the Big Voice

2020-09-08 by Todd 3 Comments

I can still remember holding that tiny little baby (5.0 lbs, 16.75 in) and thinking to myself, only eighteen years with her! Well, time has flown by and Elisabeth turned eighteen in June. Since Slovakia has a thirteen year school system she still has one more year to go, but she’s looking to the future: college in the States, developing her voice talents and driving (have to be 18 in Slovakia).

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Filed Under: family Tagged With: college, elisabeth, growing up, libby, music, voice

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When a Day Might not be a Day

2020-08-18 by Todd 6 Comments

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The creation account of Genesis 1 is divided into six days of creation and one day of rest. Each day of creation ends with the same two clauses: “And there was evening and there was morning, day 1,” “…evening…morning…the second day,” etc. To us, it seems perfectly clear that day means a 24 hour period. Why else would he say, “And there was evening, and there was morning…?” So why do some interpreters, like myself, say it’s possible that Moses uses “day” in a non plain-language way?

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Creation Article 1 (of 2) Off to a Potential Publisher!

2020-07-26 by Todd Leave a Comment

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Remember the Creation Project from way back in 2016? I have a commitment to the Templeton Religion Trust and the Henry Center for Theological Understanding to publish two articles on the topic of the proper way to read the creation account in Genesis 1. I’ve finally sent off the first article to see if a journal will accept it for publication.

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Filed Under: ministry Tagged With: creation project, genesis, mimesis, research

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