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Material Boy: On Artifacts, Discernment, and Elites
BY: David John Seel, Jr.
Andy Crouch’s Culture Making is an important book written by an insightful writer. It warrants wide discussion. It is also strangely troubling.
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When the Church Fails Us
BY: Denis Haack
For those of us who want a church which wrestles with the implications of Christ’s Lordship across all of life and culture, who recognize that the approaches to evangelism and apologetics developed in decades past fail to engage the heart yearnings of the postmodern generation, and who desire worship which has both deeply ancient roots and a living, thoughtful diversity in creativity which captures hearts as well as minds, it can be lonely.
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Measuring Spirituality
BY: Denis Haack
Given the wide-spread interest in spirituality today, it probably isn’t surprising that a psychologist has proposed a way to gauge “spiritual intelligence.” But a spirituality measure requires discernment.
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Babylon Series: Part 14 Responding to shifting sand
BY: Denis Haack
Christians assume that we can keep using the same arguments to convince each generation of the truth of Christianity. But that isn’t true. If we respond to new questions with old arguments, we make Christianity appear irrelevant.
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Callings: Twenty Centuries of Christian Wisdom on Vocation (William C. Placher, 2005)
BY: Denis Haack
Callings is a rich resource, especially for those of us who do not have easy access to a large university library. Here in one volume is Justin Martyr, Athanasius, and Augustine; Bernard of Clairvaux, Aquinas, and Thomas á Kempis; Martin Luther, John Calvin, and William Perkins; Sren Kierkegaard, Dorothy Sayers, Karl Barth, and so many more.
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Where Least Expected
BY: Denis Haack
Why warn the Jewish exiles about their own spiritual leaders instead of the Babylonians? Would not the pagan beliefs, values, and lifestyles of their captors constitute a far greater danger to true spirituality than the errors of their own prophets?
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Repose in Grace
BY: Denis Haack
“John Calvin believed that an unredeemed life keeps oscillating back and forth between pride (‘I’ve made it!’) and despair (‘I’ll never make it!’). In his view, redemption gives people security, or (one of Calvin’s favorite words) repose. His idea was that those who lean into God’s grace and let it hold them up can then drop some of their performance anxiety.”
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The cost of creativity
BY: Denis Haack
“None of us are getting out of this alive, so you might as well bury yourself in your work.”
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Neo-pagan sexuality
BY: Denis Haack
In The Matrix Reloaded, the Wachowski’s provide us a glimpse of Zion, the last refuge of the human race in the war with the machines. The temple/sex scene is crucial because it is not only in the heart of Zion, it has religious meaning as a final assembly to prepare for the last desperate battle for survival.
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Rap Artists’ Use of Women
BY: Luke Bobo
“Oh Dad, you are always preaching. You’re old fashioned and reading too much into these videos!” My overlooked point was that these rap music videos are not neutral. They communicate cogently clear and subtle messages. Namely, many of the rap music videos tend to objectify or de-humanize women.
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When a certain rhetorician was asked what was the chief rule in eloquence, he replied, "Delivery"; what was the second rule, "Delivery"; what was the third rule, "Delivery"; so if you ask me concerning the precepts of the Christian religion, first, second, third, and always I would answer, "Humility."
- St Augustine
God’s activity does not produce a possibility that we can exhaust, but an actuality to which we cannot add.
- John Calvin
We delight in a certain poisoned sweetness experienced in ferreting out and in disclosing the evils of others.
- John Calvin
If you've lost the capacity to be outraged by what's outrageous, you're dead. Somebody ought to come and haul you off.
- Wendell Berry
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We live in a skeptical world, where for many unbelief is more plausible than belief, where cynicism often seems to trump the claims of faith. We take doubt and faith very seriously here. In fact, we are convinced that both believers and unbelievers need to take their doubts seriously. Truth and life and too important to do otherwise.
Thanks for visiting our web site.
Denis (for Margie, too)
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