Source Having had a ringside seat at the events of the past two decades, and more broadly as a fellow traveller (albeit at one pew removed as a Catholic), who sees so much that is good and needed about our national church as its goes about its daily, non-headline-making parish life, here are a few suggestions – more 10 conversation-starters than 10 commandments – assembled with the help of Anglican friends. 1. Stop obsessing about sex and gender 2. Pick... Read more
It strikes me as interesting that so many embrace the interpretation that men are the naturally superior leaders and teachers without much reflection, but consider a view of complementarity without hierarchy or rigid role separation a"stretch". Read more
Among those who study the apostle Paul there is a subterranean turbulent storm that many reading the surface do not see. The turbulence is stirred by how Paul reads the Bible, or to be more accurate, how the Jewish apostle Paul “hermeneuts” Israel’s scriptures — our Old Testament. N.T. Wright, in Paul and the Faithfulness of God, says there are left brain analytical readers of Paul who think Paul is more or less proof-texting and there are other left brainers... Read more
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As I have said in a previous post, evangelicals have written the story of liberalism and that story, reluctantly but seemingly irresistibly, has been absorbed by liberals themselves. That story is that liberals have surrendered key theological beliefs and their churches are in rapid descent and the former led to the latter. Oddly, though liberalism has been for more than a century been perched in fat and pretty in positions of power, it has never bothered to tell its own... Read more
The cure for busyness is to create a way of life that will not permit busyness. Being too-busy-to-be-busy is a motto to live by. It’s a way of knowing our limits. That is, create a way of life that establishes firm limits and boundaries for times off, times to be alone and times to be with your family and times to relax and recharge and to read and walk and to garden and to just plain sit and look out... Read more
Well, what do you think of the brackets? Who will the following Regionals? South Region: Florida, Kansas, UCLA, Syracuse? West Region: Arizona, San Diego State, Wisconsin, Creighton? Midwest Region: Wichita State, Lou-a-vul, Michigan, Duke East Region: Virginia, Michigan State, Villanova, Iowa State After the run last year with Florida Gulf Coast Eagles, who can ignore the teams everyone is ignoring! Like Western Michigan. Who’s your pick for surprise team of the year? Read more
Hank makes the roster! (Source) Speaking of baseball, a good story by Doug Glanville about Ryne Sandberg and Jimmy Rollins. Read more
O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from your ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the unchangeable truth of your Word, Jesus Christ your Son; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Read more
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