2013-02-27T20:25:21-06:00

This post is by Mark Stevens, a pastor-friend in Australia, and I suspect we can all benefit from this gentle reminder.  “I am appalled at what is required of me. I am supposed to move from sickbed to administrative meeting, to planning, to supervising, to counselling, to praying, to trouble- shooting, to budgeting, to audio systems, to mediation, to worship preparation, to newsletter, to staff problems, to mission projects, to conflict management, to community leadership, to study, to funerals, to... Read more

2013-03-02T10:22:21-06:00

You like libraries? Check out these pictures. Including this personal library of Richard A. Macksey! Alistair Brown: “Almost exactly forty-five years ago I lay in bed at 2:40 a.m. trying to decide about following Christ. One thing I know for sure, that the decision either meant giving 110% of my life to him (if you can give 110%!) or walking away from my upbringing, church attendance, and Christian friends. At that moment I sensed God like never before, responded ‘yes’... Read more

2013-03-01T13:05:41-06:00

It doesn’t make you more intelligent, even if makes you feel intelligent. (HT: SS) My favorite fountain pen is made by Pelikan. Read more

2013-02-28T19:32:17-06:00

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2013-02-27T07:31:29-06:00

I know Brian Zahnd and found his courage here both refreshing and honest: But am I suggesting that we should engage in an objective study of comparative religions? No. In fact, I think such an undertaking is impossible. Not inadvisable, but literally impossible. You can only experience a religion by being a believer within the faith and practice of that religion. Religion cannot be approached objectively. The very nature of religion prevents this. For example: One can be thoroughly versed in the... Read more

2013-03-01T05:41:26-06:00

By John Frye: Dark Night Two types of “being lost” can be very spiritually dangerous. We have all lost something—car keys, money, perhaps a child in a busy mall. I remember the deep bewilderment I felt in the Frankfurt, Germany huge airport when I got separated from my travel companions and missed a connecting flight. The languages over the intercom were not English and hundreds of people were rushing here and there to make their flights. In the midst of... Read more

2013-03-01T05:44:44-06:00

This post is by Brian Harris, whose contact information is at the bottom. Sydney Anglicanism is the rough parallel movement in Australia to the NeoPuritan or NeoReformed movement in the USA. Sydney Anglicans have become a forceful evangelical movement, and it has become also a common target of criticism. I asked Brian Harris, noted theologian and balanced, peaceful Christian leader and professor, to examine the new book sketching this new movement.  Michael Jensen’s Sydney Anglicanism: An Apology (Eugene: Wipf and... Read more

2013-02-28T11:00:47-06:00

Football will never replace baseball as America’s sport. (Reason: Marching bands at half time.) Read more

2013-02-28T11:02:27-06:00

David Gergen: You agree? (CNN) — In travels this week — to Boston, Chicago, New York — friends and strangers alike have said the same thing: They are turned off and tuned out of the sequestration mess in Washington. To a person, they are sick of the antics of those to whom they have entrusted enormous power. In times past, a president has usually risen to the demands of leadership when a Congress has stubbornly resisted tough choices, such as the... Read more

2013-02-28T05:43:20-06:00

The science and faith discussion floats around a number of different issues. They intertwine with each other and can’t be separated completely. Yet one thread runs through and holds together the whole – ontological naturalism, the idea that it is irrational to believe in anything beyond the material world. This issue came up again in a number of comments over my last several posts. One commenter asked: How would you respond to an atheist who says, “these scientists who believe... Read more

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