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2013-08-21T10:49:22-07:00

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“The Buddhists Are Coming! The Buddhists Are Coming!”

Last updated on: August 21, 2013 at 10:49 am By Paul Louis Metzger

To those of you who are American Evangelical Christians, what do you feel when you read these words “The Buddhists are coming! The Buddhists are coming!”? Consternation? Fear? Joy? This summer, I was invited to share a few words at a groundbreaking event for a Zen Buddhist temple where my dear friends, Kyogen and Gyokuko Carlson, serve as abbots. I have worked with them and their community for several years now in Portland, Oregon, on matters pertaining to spirituality and... Read more

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2013-08-21T09:43:09-07:00

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Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

Last updated on: August 21, 2013 at 9:43 am By Paul Louis Metzger

Perhaps you have heard stories of authority figures such as parents or teachers or police officers and judges saying of certain youth that they will not amount to anything and that they are bad to the bone. Sometimes, their projections become self-fulfilling prophecies. I am glad that Paul does not view the Corinthian Christians that way, though one might think he had reason to do so. After all, they were a very carnal church–given to factions centering on alignment with... Read more

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2013-08-21T09:50:28-07:00

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On Ayn Rand: Is Rational Selfishness Rational and Self-Affirming Enough?, Part 2

Last updated on: August 21, 2013 at 9:50 am By Paul Louis Metzger

In my first post on Ayn Rand, I concluded by saying that In my estimation, her ethical model of objectivism depends upon the ability and imperative of reasoning apart from emotional or experiential stimuli that otherwise impact rationality and upon a view of the self as autonomous. Can one reason in this pristine manner, and should one? And should one view the self as autonomous? If one answers in the affirmative, one would likely tend to affirm Rand’s objectivism as... Read more

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2013-08-15T15:29:36-07:00

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Beyond Cultural Monopolies to the Multifaceted Gospel

Last updated on: August 15, 2013 at 3:29 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

At our intentionally multi-ethnic church, a discussion has arisen from our examinations of Paul’s epistle to the Galatians. We have been interacting about the characteristics of our particular gospel-centered community, trying to describe what it is like and what defines its culture. We’ve been considering what it looks like to give the gospel precedence in our hearts and minds over our cultural customs so that there is no cultural monopoly. The late, great Lakota Sioux Christian leader Richard Twiss’s words on cultural... Read more

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2013-08-15T15:28:21-07:00

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Was Moses a Feminist?

Last updated on: August 15, 2013 at 3:28 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

As you may know, I edit a journal for The Institute for the Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins called Cultural Encounters. We have a new issue out and I’d invite you to take a look. I’ve reprinted the Editor’s Introduction here, giving you a sampling of what is in this issue. If it piques your interest, head on over to the journal, subscribe, and read! Was Moses a feminist? It all depends on what texts from the Torah... Read more

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2013-08-15T15:27:02-07:00

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On Ayn Rand: Is Rational Selfishness Rational and Self-Affirming Enough?

Last updated on: August 15, 2013 at 3:27 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

Ayn Rand was a most provocative and radical thinker, whom many leading Americans have claimed influenced their political and economic views. Ayn Rand’s objectivist ethics frames morality in terms of rational self-interest or rational selfishness (Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, Signet, 1964, p. xi). Among other things, she confronted altruism and hedonism (The Virtue of Selfishness, 33). Her interview with Mike Wallace reveals her convictions in precise and startling terms. Whether one agrees with her or not, one finds... Read more

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2013-08-15T15:25:51-07:00

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Are We Called by God, Coerced or Coercing?

Last updated on: August 15, 2013 at 3:25 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

Paul starts out all his letters with “Paul,” not “Dr. Paul” with a long resume of accomplishments attached, just Paul. He often refers to his being called by God to be an apostle–one sent by God (See for example 1 Corinthians 1:1). His calling and sense of identity were shaped dramatically by his Damascus Road experience and his time away in Arabia (See Acts 9:1-19; Galatians 1:11-24). What shapes our identity and sense of mission? Do we sense God’s call?... Read more

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2013-08-15T15:24:32-07:00

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The Evangelical Women We Don’t Know—and Need to Know

Last updated on: August 15, 2013 at 3:24 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

My friend, Tom Krattenmaker, has written an important new book bearing on concern for the common good titled The Evangelicals You Don’t Know. Krattenmaker, who is a self-professed liberal, hopes that progressives like himself will welcome the changing face of Evangelicalism. In a recent Huffington Post article, Krattenmaker has written to liberals about “6 Evangelicals You Don’t Know…But Might Want To.” Only one of the individuals mentioned in that list is a woman, who is also a person of non-Anglo... Read more

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2013-08-15T15:23:05-07:00

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The Christian Faith & Many Faiths: On the Great Commandments and the Great Commission, Part I

Last updated on: August 15, 2013 at 3:23 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

What does it look like to live out the Christian faith in a multi-faith society? My recent Leadership Journal article titled “The One and the Many: Ministry that’s clearly Christian in a multi-faith world” begins with the following words: We now minister in a multi-faith society. Our congregants are living and working in a multi-faith world. Our congregants of Asian-American heritage may very well attend funeral services of Buddhist family members where incense is burned. Our church members will probably... Read more

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2013-08-01T14:41:35-07:00

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The One and the Many

Last updated on: August 1, 2013 at 2:41 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

This is an excerpt of a recent essay I was invited to write for Leadership Journal. Click on over for the full article. We now minister in a multi-faith society. Our congregants are living and working in a multi-faith world. Our congregants of Asian-American heritage may very well attend funeral services of Buddhist family members where incense is burned. Our church members will probably be asked during a coffee break what they make of the Dalai Lama as a spiritual... Read more

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