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rambling thoughts
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reflecting on a theological life
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untraceable
Untraceable is the latest in the long-line of horror films. The premise as I understand it is that some malevolent sicko has kidnapped several people and they are each slowly being murdered.
The twist is that the rate of each murder is being controlled by how many people log onto a particular website to [...]
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urban liturgy
“For folks of a higher socio-economic status, I can certainly see the value of a liturgy,? said my pastor last week. Ministering as we do in a low-income, low-education neighborhood, this is often our response to many of the post-modern, emergent emphases.
Here, however, I had to disagree. ?Liturgy has often been used with underprivileged [...]
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first-hand faith
What do Neo-Orthodoxy, the Maryknoll Society and the Emerging Church have in common? Other than a good foundation for one of those “three guys walk into a bar…” jokes, I would previously have said “nothing.”
Karl Barth, for example, was the main proponent of neo-orthodox theology. He was a towering genius among the theologians of the [...]
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the no-show
On the way to his house, I called him. ?Are we still on? Good. I?ll be there in ten minutes.? I headed over to his house, thrilled because after four consecutive cancellations, I finally was going to have a meeting with someone this week.
As I walked down the tiny alley that [...]
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orthodoxy
“This is the thrilling romance of Orthodoxy. People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad. It is easy to [...]
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harold crick
Harold Crick works for the IRS, and as such he is the main character in Karen Eiffel’s new book Death and Taxes. Harold Crick also happens to live in the real world. Or, perhaps, Karen Eiffel lives in the world circumscribed by her novel.
Regardless, the movie Stranger Than Fiction (be forewarned: [...]
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zebra?s stripes
“television programs were basically invented to gain an audience for commercials.”
-James K.A. Smith, Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism
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discipleship
It is abundantly clear to me that in all my meetings, all my phone calls, and all my letters as a pastor that I am not discipling anybody.
After all, I didn’t tell one woman that she ought to quit smoking.
And I didn’t tell another woman that when she read about Jesus calming the storm it [...]
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terah?s son
The story of Terah is a little known one. He gathered up his son, his son?s wife, and his grandson (the only child of a different son who had died) and set out for a far away land called Canaan. For whatever reason, when he arrived at a place called Haraan, Terah settled down. Terah [...]
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slavery
Human trafficking. Child slavery. Forced Prostitution.
These seem to me to be words from history books, words about a different world. I can, of course, conceive of slavery being part of my story, the American story. I can imagine past wrongs that have given birth to a system of inequality the results of which carry on into [...]
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