Gracious Father, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ came down from heaven to be the true bread which gives life to the world: Evermore give us this bread, that he may live in us, and we in him; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Read more
When it comes to your reading place or reading chair, or reading bed, are you a stacker of books near you or do you make sure they are on shelves? Read more
Improvising within the Fullness of Time A review of Scott Waalkes, The Fullness of Time in a Flat World: Globalization and the Liturgical Year (Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2010). By Wes Vander Lugt This book has not received much buzz around the blogosphere, but I believe it deserves to be engaged. Also, given the fact that we are in the midst of Lent, it is appropriate to consider Waalkes’s proposal that Christians formed by the liturgical year—the fullness of time—will... Read more
One of the points I have made in my King Jesus Gospel book is that the soterian gospel is a rhetorical package that seeks to move folks from a state of liminality (the sense of being loved and under God’s wrath at the same time), almost always rooted in the threat of what could happen after death, to salvation. This recent graph from CT shows that the soterian gospel’s rhetorical leverage is being removed. Thoughts? Read more
Kris and I have been away for a week for Spring Break, so no Weekly Meanderings today… and I want to thank RJS for maintaining the blog … but we do have a few posts today worthy of reading and discussion. There are some who look at life and see decline; there are others who look at the same life and say we are getting better. Some Christians tend to see the decline. Anyone who claims statistics often has an... Read more
From Roger’s summary of Ruether’s study: Now, how does Ruether’s view support my own? It seems to me that the root cause of the present male malaise is resentment arising from the perception that males are viewed by society as, at their core, inferior to females. One education expert noted (in Newsweek’s “The Boy Crisis” cover story (January 30, 2006) that in today’s public schools boys tend to be treated as “defective girls.” Boys and young men cannot help but... Read more
Wow, this report comes out with guns blazing, and it should: I urge you, today, to ask at your place of employment. In every field, at every level of education, men earn more than women. That’s the grim takeaway of this new report [PDF] from the U.S. Census Bureau, which assesses the value of a higher education in the United States—and illustrates the persistent pay gap between male and female employees who hold comparable degrees. In short, education is valuable, but it’s most... Read more
IF GOD THEN WHAT 3 – REPAINTING GOD This is the third of three brief posts I’ve done based on my book, If God Then What? Wondering Aloud About Truth, Origins and Redemption. I’ve talked a fair bit about the importance of asking questions, and given some examples of what I think are some good ones. But eventually, you have to put your cards on the table. So (spoiler alert) here’s a section of the final chapter. To me, the... Read more
The Godfather movie trilogy has one of my favorites takes on ethics with business: (insert best Brando voice here), “It’s not personal. It’s business.” And then there is the infamous tell-all Mayflower Madam from the 1980s, Sydney Biddle Barrows, who said, “I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.” We chuckle at such rationalizations but it isn’t only mafiosos and madams that feel the need to compartmentalize. Many people in business feel the same pressure.... Read more
From USAToday: Good advice? Don’t let stress sabotage your relationship, says Thomas Bradbury, co-founder of the UCLA Relationship Institute. His advice: 1. Get stress on your radar. Learn to recognize when your partner is feeling stressed, and cut him or her some slack. 2. Step up. When your partner is tired and stressed, that’s your signal to step up and do more around the house, Bradbury says. “But if you crow about helping, you are making your partner feel worse, not better.”... Read more
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