The dinner guests were sitting around the table discussing life. One man, a CEO, decided to explain the problem with education. He argued, ‘What’s a kid going to learn from someone who decided his best option in life was to become a teacher?’ He reminded the other dinner guests what they say about teachers: ‘Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.’ To emphasize his point he said to another guest; ‘You’re a teacher, Bonnie. Be honest. What do... Read more
Sleep, O sleep in the calm of each calm. Sleep, O sleep in the guidance of all guidance. Sleep, O sleep in the love of all loves. Sleep, O beloved, in the Lord of life. Sleep, O beloved, in the God of life. The peace of all peace be mine this night + in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Read more
We’re wondering who has seen the new Meryl Streep movie, Julia and Julia? Any recommendations, etc? What did you think? Come to think of it, I think the last movie we saw was with Meryl Streep in Mama Mia! Read more
Wow, the lavishly illustrated The Inklings of Oxford: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Their Friends has occupied too much of my time. I couldn’t put the thing down. What this book is a sumptuous, color collection of pictures of the Oxford worlds in which Lewis, Tolkien and friends lived. Even a picture of a bus riding up Headington Hill — on which ride Lewis came to the conclusion that there was a God. Included are tours of... Read more
Peter’s sermon moves from Jesus’ miracles to Jesus’ death to Jesus’ resurrection. This is where many of us stop — in fact, many of us stop with the death and don’t include God’s raising Jesus in our gospeling. But for Peter there’s even more: there’s the ascending vindication of Jesus before the Father, from which location Jesus sends the Spirit — which set this whole Pentecost thing off! Here are Peter’s words: “Brothers and sisters, we all know that the... Read more
What place can evolution have in a world created by a personal God? The Darwinian paradigm of random mutation and natural selection seems to suggest that the development of life in the universe and sentient beings on our planet is a process dependent upon highly contingent improbable events. We are a product of blind cosmic chance – luck as it were. But is this really true – is this the way the world works? Certainly it is a view that... Read more
David Bentley Hart, a historian of ideas, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies , examines “faith and reason” to provide historical context for what has happened with New Atheists. Hart begins by quoting the famous medievalist, Jacques Le Goff, who exercises considerable psychological imagination about why and how medievals cared for the excluded — lepers and the like. Hart simply trots out evidence that makes Le Goff’s psychologizing less than adequate and suggests that the evidence leads... Read more
the furthest from a Major League (Baseball) stadium? Before you click, can you guess approximately or at least get the State? Read more
Peter’s “sermon” — which is more interpretation of event than anything else — explains that the tongue-speaking community, of which he is a part, is not some lunatic fringe but the very embodiment of God’s promises through the prophet Joel. But Peter goes immediately from Joel to Jesus, the “God-accredited” man through miracles, wonders and signs. Notice, too, that these things were done by God in their presence through Jesus. Acts of God is the emphasis. Again, God handed him... Read more
We are in a conversation and discussion about John Walton’s (professor at Wheaton) new book, The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate. What about Day 1 to Day 3 in Genesis 1? Is this about materiality or about functionality? Walton argues that these three days show the viability of his thesis and they also can’t be explained well with the materiality thesis. Day 1: it is not bringing light into material existence or darkness into... Read more
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