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2014-01-23T12:51:36-08:00

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What Is Enlightenment? Dare to Think!

Last updated on: January 23, 2014 at 12:51 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

Immanuel Kant’s famous exhortation “Have courage to use your own reason!” (“Sapere aude!”) stands out as a defining statement of the Enlightenment. For Kant, daring to thinking for oneself is enlightenment. In his catalytic essay “What Is Enlightenment?” he calls on his readers to free themselves from “self-incurred…tutelage,” where they take their direction from others. (See Immanuel Kant, “What Is Enlightenment?” in Kant Selections, ed. Lewis White Beck, The Great Philosophers series {New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1988}, p. 462).... Read more

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2014-01-23T12:47:18-08:00

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Unfinished Business

Last updated on: January 23, 2014 at 12:47 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

I originally delivered this as a keynote address for The Albina Ministerial Alliance’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Service at Allen Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Portland, Oregon on January 15, 2012. As we reflect on Dr. King’s legacy together today, I wanted to share these words again. This evening, we have gathered together to remember, celebrate and act upon the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We have unfinished business to which we must attend. God... Read more

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2014-01-23T12:40:29-08:00

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Boast In Christ, Not Name Brands

Last updated on: January 23, 2014 at 12:40 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

What would the Apostle Paul write to the American church today? Among other things, I believe he would write: Boast in Christ, not name brands. He wrote on this theme of boasting in God in Christ to the Corinthian church in the 1st century (See 1 Corinthians 1:26-31, 2 Corinthians 10:17-18; see also his discussion of boasting in 2 Corinthians 11; cf. Jeremiah 9:23-24). The Corinthian Christians clothed themselves in autonomy from Christ. Like Adam and Eve, they were being... Read more

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2014-01-16T10:43:51-08:00

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Bring It Home with John Steinbeck’s “East of Eden”

Last updated on: January 16, 2014 at 10:43 am By Paul Louis Metzger

In East of Eden, John Steinbeck brought home the biblical story of Cain and Abel to Salinas, California, where he grew up. Do you bring home this cosmic story to your life by recounting and overcoming it? Whether or not you and I tell the story, we live it every day. Jealousy, rejection, abandonment, revenge, forgiveness, and hope. Cain felt that God had rejected him and his offering for his brother and his gift. In a fit of jealousy and... Read more

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2014-01-16T10:43:16-08:00

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“I Love Jesus, But Not My Mother.”

Last updated on: January 16, 2014 at 10:43 am By Paul Louis Metzger

I originally posted this piece on March 6, 2012. As I prepared once again to teach ecclesiology this semester, I reflected upon these themes and thought them pertinent in the present context. Much has been made of the video “Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus” by Jeff Bethke . Even Time has entered the conversation. The video has been watched countless times since it appeared in early January. Regardless of what one makes of Bethke’s words, one cannot question his ability to... Read more

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2014-01-14T07:59:37-08:00

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Good Shepherds in an Age of Charismatic Preaching and Cutting Edge Marketing

Last updated on: January 14, 2014 at 7:59 am By Paul Louis Metzger

We live in a church age that values charismatic preaching and cutting edge marketing. But do we value good shepherding? What makes for good shepherding? Jesus tells us a thing or two or three about good shepherding in John 10. Fresh off the confrontation with the religious establishment of his day over the man born blind whom Jesus healed (recorded in John 9), Jesus declares that he is the Good Shepherd, not like those religious shepherds who fail to care... Read more

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2014-01-13T09:38:54-08:00

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Which Does Jesus Like More—Old Wine or New Wine?

Last updated on: January 13, 2014 at 9:38 am By Paul Louis Metzger

Which does Jesus like more—old wine or new wine? I’m not sure. While I have heard it said that Jesus actually turned water into grape juice at the wedding in Cana (recorded in John 2), it was new wine. I’m not sure of the alcohol percentage, though. All we know is that it was better than what they had been drinking. Then he tells us in Luke 22 that he will not drink from the cup of the Lord’s Supper... Read more

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2014-01-14T12:58:13-08:00

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How Does the Pagan Play “Rent” Bear Witness to Christ?

Last updated on: January 14, 2014 at 12:58 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

What do we make of the relation of the sacred and secular? For example, what makes Christian art Christian, if it is Christian? Do certain Christian symbols like the cross make a piece of art decisively Christian? Do the lack of those symbols make it unchristian or non-Christian? If the latter were the case, what then would one make of the Book of Esther, where God’s name is not specifically mentioned? Esther is considered sacred literature traditionally to Jews as... Read more

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2014-01-09T14:06:20-08:00

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Christian America and the Cruciform Church

Last updated on: January 9, 2014 at 2:06 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

“Christian America” is that form of American Christianity that operates by way of seeking to show the importance of Christianity for culture at large in terms of its strength, sustainable solutions and resilience to gain and maintain control. But is this the way God in Christ always or even chiefly operates? Perhaps we can learn from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s approach to German Christianity and the surrounding culture in the mid-twentieth century. Bonhoeffer wrote about being dead to the “God of the... Read more

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2014-01-09T14:11:04-08:00

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Why Is the West the Best?

Last updated on: January 9, 2014 at 2:11 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

Why is the West the best? Or is it? I asked my Japanese wife to respond to the question, “Why is the West the best?” She answered, “Because that’s what the West says.” Edward W. Said has said as much, too, and more. The author of the highly influential and controversial work, Orientalism, Said claims that the West (Europe and the United States) has objectified the East, specifically, the Middle Eastern peoples, framing them as foreign, strange, and threatening. Said... Read more

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