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June 2013

June 21, 2013

Eternal life is living in God’s poetry

Growing up evangelical, I had drilled into me the dichotomy between "the law" and "grace."...

June 20, 2013

Creation: something from nothing or ordering chaos

I've been working my way through Greg Boyd's God At War. One of the things...

June 18, 2013

On redemptive suffering, #abuse, and #privilege

I just looked over an essay by Katie Mulligan that deals with the topic of...

June 17, 2013

Monday Merton 6.17.13

Today's Monday Merton comes from chapter 10, "Sincerity," of No Man Is An Island. What Merton...

June 16, 2013

Sarah Moon and unmerciful #universalism

A week ago, ex-evangelical blogger Sarah Moon wrote a post titled: "When my abuser is...

June 15, 2013

David Brooks on America’s abandonment of #Biblical values

In David Brooks' New York Times Thursday column, he shares the story of Walter Judd,...

June 14, 2013

Greg Boyd on evil, spiritual warfare, and divine sovereignty

I've started reading Greg Boyd's God At War, which I checked out of the local...

June 13, 2013

Is private philanthropy more efficient than the state at helping the poor?

CNN today features an article talking about the corruption in America's charity industrial complex. One...

June 13, 2013

Can we define sin as “that which causes death”?

In the spring of 2010, I bought a Spanish language theology book, El Principio Misericordia...

June 12, 2013

Could you worship a God who makes Himself nothing?

[This is the first synchroblog of our new blogging collective The Despised Ones addressing the...

June 11, 2013

Paraklesis: a beautiful word (2 Corinthians 1)

The Daily Office reading for yesterday was the opening of Paul's second letter to the...

June 11, 2013

Eternal life is innocence restored (Journey to Eternity #1)

There has been so much extra-Biblical speculation about the implications of the Garden of Eden...

June 10, 2013

Monday Merton 6.10.13

For this week's Monday Merton, I am drawing from chapters 8 and 9 of No...

June 10, 2013

Fearing God vs. carrying a fearsome god-puppet who agrees with you

Those who have read this blog for a while will recall that about a year...

June 10, 2013

“Beset by change but Spirit led”

Our hymn of preparation at mass today was "The Church of Christ in Every Age."...

June 09, 2013

Gregory of Nazianzus on how the cross “pays” for sin

[***UPDATE: I have not been able to find the original source for this quote. I...

June 09, 2013

La nueva ropa de Jesus (audio from my Dominican Republic sermon)

Yesterday I got the audio from my bilingual sermon in the Dominican Republic. I had...

June 08, 2013

Jason Micheli on Discipleship vs. Propositional Belief

My friend Jason Micheli blogged yesterday on the anxiety of parents whose kids have fallen...

June 08, 2013

The Male Gaze: Attraction vs. Lust

For the past several months, I've been watching the conversation unfold as the evangelical feminist...

June 07, 2013

Journey to Eternity: our next sermon series

Tomorrow night I will be starting a new sermon series at LifeSign called the Journey...

June 07, 2013

Can we have a real conversation about civil liberties now that the government is spying on white people too?

It's quite the ideological whiplash to transition from the outrage over the Boston marathon bombing...

June 06, 2013

Is yoga Satanic? E.W. Jackson and Al Mohler think so.

An Atlantic Monthly article yesterday took a look at some comments made by one of...

June 05, 2013

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove on race and family in North Carolina

Yesterday, over 150 social justice activists in North Carolina were arrested at the state legislature...

June 04, 2013

Pinocchio and eternal life (my second Dominican sermon of 2013)

A few weeks ago, Bruxy Cavey at the Meeting House preached a sermon using Pinocchio...

June 04, 2013

The holiness of belonging to *this* world (with @BrianZahnd)

In Brian Zahnd's May 26th sermon "New Creation (Not Evacuation)," he confronts the neo-Gnosticism of...

June 03, 2013

Monday Merton 6.3.13

These Monday Merton quotes are taken from chapter 7, "Being and Doing," of No Man...

June 02, 2013

Viaje Dominicano 2013 #6: Un cumpleaños memorable

[Today's entry comes from Erin Lauer whose daughter Anna celebrated her eighth birthday yesterday with...

June 01, 2013

Viaje Dominicano 2013 #5: Mixing concrete, mixing people

[Today's blog reflection comes from our mission team co-leader Jane Wilson] Yesterday, the youngest member...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

Viaje Dominicana 2013 #4: La Lenguaje de Beisbol

[Today's post comes from Emily Amburn] A mission trip consists of different components, each important...

May 30, 2013

Brian Zahnd on Cruciform Evangelism in Colossians 1:24

I was listening to Brian Zahnd's podcast Tuesday while waiting for the rest of my...

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