May 2012
29 posts
"Culture Wars and the Future of the Evangelical... →
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“[T]he only way through the culture wars is not to shout about our need to go beyond them, but to set about ignoring them altogether and get on with the work that is given to each generation: providing the positive vision for society that has been informed by our Christian commitments. It may be, in fact, prudent to simply avoid celebrating much altogether. We ought to...
settledthingsstrange:
Best of any song is bird song in the quiet, but first you must have the quiet.
— Wendell Berry, from A Timbered Choir
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the...”
– C. S. Lewis (via ermarty)
“People think of the Incarnation in mythological terms, by which I mean, God...”
– Father Robert Barron (via cheyloe)
“Christianity is always out of fashion because it is always sane; and all...”
– G.K. Chesterton in The Ball and the Cross (via gkchestertonquote)
“Speculation over history, looking ahead into the unknown future - these are not...”
– Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth, Part Two (via invisibleforeigner)
Watch“I was born into a system constructed for failure It’s a sinking ship manned by drunken sailors … My rest is a weapon against the oppression Of man’s obsession to control things Look at the long line of make believe kings The lord of the flies wants you to kiss his ring Follow new rules with invisible strings And become a puppet in the diabolical scheme How do good men become part of...
“Once you give to God what belongs to God, there is nothing left for Caesar.”
– Dorothy Day (via awkwardbutaccurate)
“More than at any point in our history, the smartest people generally go to high...”
– How Meritocracy Divides Us - Ross Douthat (via ayjay)
A Standing Ground →
However just and anxious I have been I will stop and step back from the crowd of those who may agree with what I say, and be apart. There is no earthly promise of life or peace but where the roots branch and weave their patient silent passages in the dark; uprooted, I have been furious without an…
“[W]hen people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (via marioalbertozambrano via hours)
“If I understand the teaching of the New Testament on this matter, I understand...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p82 (via newbigin)
“The proper freedom of the Church is inseparable from its obligation to declare...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p71 (via newbigin)
“The idea that if economic life is detached from all moral considerations and...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p77 (via newbigin)
“So for [furniture maker Harrison] Higgins, there is no simplistic opposition...”
– Jamie Smith, “Artificial Grace: Why the Creation Needs Human Creativity.” I might add that when we say Jesus was a carpenter, the Greek word there is tekton: maker, builder. (via ayjay)
“Sometimes we do not know what we know until it comes to us through the soles of...”
– Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World (via recycledsoul)
“I’m still discovering, right up to this moment, that it is only by living...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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“We have reduced the Gospel to an abstract message of salvation that can be...”
– Ken Myers, Is ‘the Culture’ Really the Church’s Problem? (via triadic)
“In biblical terms, it is wisdom we need to live together in this world. Wisdom...”
– Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World (via recycledsoul)
“Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
“Christianity, as a genuine revealed religion, cannot be a communication of...”
– Hans Urs von Balthasar, Love Alone is Credible (via invisibleforeigner)
“Ask yourself: If that is what Jesus is all about—getting us to love one...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, (via nomoresea)
“In the drive to make churches more guy-friendly, we risk confusing cultural...”
– Michael Horton (via wesleyhill)
“Both objectivism and subjectivism are ways of evading personal responsibility...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p59 (via newbigin)
Adventures in New Testament Greek: Nous →
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By Scott Cairns You could almost think the word synonymous with mind, given our so far narrow history, and the excessive esteem in which we have been led to hold what is, in this case, our rightly designated nervous systems. Little wonder then that some presume the mind itself…
April 2012
54 posts
“The life of Christ is a unique set of events, which has as a matter of fact...”
– Rowan Williams, Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction (via invisibleforeigner)
“Today Jesus’ words are too familiar, too domesticated, too stripped of their...”
– Amy-Jill Levine, The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus (via invisibleforeigner)
“Jesus is Lord not only of the Church but of the world, not only in the religious...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p34 (via newbigin)
“The word ‘boredom’ did not enter the language until the eighteenth century.
...”
– Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos (via theoldguard)
“There is no absolute separation of faith and knowledge. We believe in order to...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p33 (via digitaldion)
“The most familiar parts of the Bible are often the parts we have the hardest...”
– Byas, Jared; Enns, Peter (2012-04-09). Genesis for Normal People: A Guide to the Most Controversial, Misunderstood, and Abused Book of the Bible (Kindle Locations 802-815). Patheos Press. Kindle Edition. (via firstbreath90)
“It would be useless to turn one’s back on the past in order simply to...”
– Simone Weil (via mshedden)
“And if there is no public doctrine of human destiny, there can be no basis for...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth pp24-25 (via newbigin)
“The proclamation of the gospel requires the telling of truth about human sin,...”
– Joseph Mangina, commenting on Revelation 11:3 (via wesleyhill)
“For almost as long as there has been science in the West there has been a...”
– Marilynne Robinson, excerpt from “Freedom of Thought”, an essay from her new collection, When I Was a Child I Read Books (via veareflejos)
“To those who questioned the prettiness of his paintings—their...”
– Gregory Wolfe, “Art in a Fallen World”
“The Supper closes the gap between joy in creation and pious devotion to God. At...”
– Leithart (via germerian)
“Indeed, the simple truth is that the resurrection cannot be accommodated in any...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p11 (via newbigin)
“I also think that Christians need to feel comfortable being critical of the...”
– Ross Douthat (via ayjay)
“[W]e may well be coming to the end of the era of the sovereign nation-state as...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p89 (via newbigin)
“On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A fisherman mends a...”
– “A Song On the End of the World,” Czesław Miłosz.
(via disturbthebookmites)
“In a significant essay … the theologian Robert Jenson … asks a provocative...”
– Resident Theology: Richard Hays on “the resurrection of Jesus [as] the epistemological key to understanding the world and therefore the key to all history” (via mshedden)
“Many people are drawn to academic life because they expect it will provide a...”
– Screening Out the Introverts - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via ayjay)
“For the whole Christian tradition and for those variously influenced by it...”
– Leander Keck (via wesleyhill)