Our chipmunks? We’ve got them everywhere. I wonder at times if we don’t have the ideal conditions for a chipmunk breeding ground: a porch under which they can burrow, birds who knock gobs of bird seed onto the ground, and a garage in which there is a bucket of bird seed which these little critters [...]
A Brother’s Wisdom 67
Jun 10, 2009 @ 13:05 By 1 Comment
James 4:7-10 contains a list of commands and prohibitions, with an occasional promise. Here is the text, and you can read it and see if you think here is a discernible structure: Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near [...]
The Pastor and Spirituality
Jun 10, 2009 @ 5:51 By 10 Comments
“Someone has said that we are not human beings trying to become spiritual but spiritual beings trying to become human.” I’m not quite sure what that set of options means, but it pushes against the tendency for Christian leaders to be gnostic — and Ruth Haley Barton, in her new book, Strengthening the Soul of [...]
The Church in Europe: Imminent Demise?
Jun 10, 2009 @ 0:09 By 16 Comments
It is common to make two claims today: 1. That the Church in Europe is in a steady decline and heading toward distinction extinction. The dearth of births to Christians — Italy’s birth rate is at 1.28 while 2.1 is needed to sustain a population – portends a future collapse of the Church. 2. That [...]
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