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2021-06-04T09:41:45-04:00

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Jesus and the Dialectic

Last updated on: June 4, 2021 at 9:41 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Jesus was the master teacher, better at “Socratic dialogue” than Socrates. The Athenians began with (mostly) rich young men in one of the most educated cities in the Mediterranean world. Jesus walked with a much more diverse group of disciples, men, and women, rich and poor, and made them world changers. Socrates educated Plato, but the Lord Jesus walked with His students and gave Himself to them. Jesus created the Apostles: renewed them by allowing them to choose to become... Read more

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2021-06-05T00:23:59-04:00

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Both Voices: Hearing All of Humanity

Last updated on: June 5, 2021 at 12:23 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

God created humankind male and female. Each sex has a complementary role to the other and have different voices, a beautiful harmony, while both are fully human in essence. Sadly, evil people use differences to destroy, steal, and kill. When the female and the male voice are not expressed in the fullness of a life or society, then we do not hear the full voice of the Image of God. If a man, it is vital to think as a woman and... Read more

Spiritual Reflections

2021-06-01T21:59:09-04:00

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The Ancient Discovery of Common Theology to Save Our World (Guest Voice: Dr. Eric Holloway)

Last updated on: June 1, 2021 at 9:59 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

What if we turned from academic theology to “common theology?” Would we find intriguing ideas in the great conversation of a diversity of theology minds? Dr. Eric Holloway thinks so and he wishes us to think with him. Dr. Eric Holloway has a great texts degree, a MSc in Computer Science at the Air Force Institute of Technology and a PhD in Computer Engineering at Baylor University. Dr. Holloway: What if theology were a knowledge based discipline like philosophy, science... Read more

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2021-05-31T14:56:51-04:00

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Celebrating Memorial Day: God Bless South Korean, Vietnam, and other Cold War Vets

Last updated on: May 31, 2021 at 2:56 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Thank God for the United States that liberated so many people in the Cold War. We remember those who died for our country in the long Cold War against Soviet tyranny and helped free Eastern Europe, while keeping South Korea, Taiwan and other countries independent. Thank God for those who tried to give the Vietnamese the same chance. Recently I sat with a man whose uncle was sent to a camp and beaten for not having communist views. The uncle... Read more

Culture

2021-05-31T13:15:03-04:00

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Likely Wrong: Biblical Egalitarianism Regarding Some Religious Roles is Implausible

Last updated on: May 31, 2021 at 1:15 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Sometimes the angels are not in the details, but the general structure. Advocacy scholarship can get almost any result from almost any set of data. There are at least sixty-six books in the Scriptural canon, most Christians think there are more, and in such a broad set of books, if one is determined to find something there, codes for the end times, Free Masonry, egalitarianism in religious roles, then sufficiently clever people can. Advocacy scholarship always wishes to dwell on... Read more

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2021-05-28T10:39:35-04:00

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Even a Dog Gets a Treat: Man Needs Bread, but not Just Bread Alone

Last updated on: May 28, 2021 at 10:39 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Our dog got a treat, not just a treat, but a treat from Rochester.* Hope, gone to the home of our alma mater, where we met in high school, and met again after college, knew who needed a reward. Nessie, the Wonder Dog, missed Hope. Zweigles, maker of these treats, also makes delicious “hots.” When I first came to Rochester from civilization (West Virginia), I was unsure what a “hot” was, red or white. Zweigles taught me the difference: hotdogs... Read more

Spiritual Reflections

2021-05-28T10:34:53-04:00

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To Be Hardly Able to Hear, Yet Hearing

Last updated on: May 28, 2021 at 10:34 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

I thought the concert would be glorious, but the music was hard work. Let me tell about an experience in learning mostly failed by me, but where a few gleams of joy over time made all worthwhile. This might encourage someone else to try the same: hard music, new to you, played live, and learned through meditation. All this began on never ending daytime in Russia. We walked to the Opera House together, hand in hand, in Saint Petersburg, a... Read more

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2021-05-27T22:24:08-04:00

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Not Just Cake: Why Music Matters

Last updated on: May 27, 2021 at 10:24 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Two principles regarding treats: A man can live without cake and cannot live on cake alone. We cannot eat the cake and still have cake. This is fortunate for us, since treats are rare for most people in the world just now. In Paradise, where there is a party without end, if cake is your jam, you get cake. Here and now, nobody can be sure that cake is coming. For daily bread, we pray, the necessities of life. Why?... Read more

2021-05-26T14:54:51-04:00

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Singing in the Rain (Guest Voice: Lauren Turner)

Last updated on: May 26, 2021 at 2:54 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Music matters. Music matters too much to leave to the professionals. This thought, more Plato than mine, inspired a key leader at our School and College to write. Here is Lauren Turner, director of Fine Arts! Since moving to the Houston area almost five years ago, I have learned that Houston has what is referred to as a “rainy season”. This rainy season takes place somewhere between January and December of any given calendar year and its trademark is... Read more

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2021-05-25T19:27:27-04:00

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The End of the Age: Reflecting on a Mother’s Wisdom

Last updated on: May 25, 2021 at 7:27 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Do we live in the end of an age? Yesterday, Mom, wise woman, said: “There are many signs of the end the age, not perhaps the End, but an end. And, of course, one end will be the End. Maybe this one will be the End.” If you are not given to Christianity, then eschatology, a discussion of the End of things may make little sense. If like two and one half billions of people, you are a Christian, then... Read more

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