September 2011
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“The missionary character of the church, therefore, means that the testing of the...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, Working With Words: On Learning to Speak Christian
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“Prophecy remains of absorbing interest to millions of Americans, but those who...”
– Paul Boyer, When Time Shall Be No More
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“Augustine’s vision of the interpenetration of sacred and secular history...”
– Paul Boyer, When Time Shall Be No More
He apparently forgot to include the Eastern church…
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“From a Darwinian perspective, the adaptive mechanisms by which prophecy belief...”
– Paul Boyer, When Time Shall Be No More
August 2011
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“As prophecy writers address contemporary concerns and seek the largest possible...”
– Paul Boyer, When Time Shall Be No More
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Spiritual But Not Religious? Please Stop Boring... →
On airplanes, I dread the conversation with the person who finds out I am a minister and wants to use the flight time to explain to me that he is “spiritual but not religious.” Such a person will always share this as if it is some kind of daring insight, unique to him, bold in its rebellion against the religious status quo.
Next thing you know, he’s telling me that he finds...
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“Christians need to sense the weight of God’s glory, the truths of God’s Word,...”
– Trevin Wax (via azspot)
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“Shabbat is one of the most companionable of days.”
– George Robinson, Essential Judaism
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“An unbelieving world can make a saint out of almost anybody who dares to be...”
– Stanley Hauerwas
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“Judaism is a religion - indeed, the first and, by and large, the only religion -...”
– George Robinson, Essential Judaism
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“”Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply,...”
– (via heminchang)
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“What is the use of all your nature to me—all your parks and trees, your sunsets...”
– Dostoyevsky, The Idiot (via thediaphanous)
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“Truth is what is true, and it’s not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not...”
– Madeleine L’Engle (via firstbreath90)
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“When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.”
– Madeleine L’Engle (via firstbreath90)
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“Myths are even prophetic, pointing to the truth from afar, as Greek philosophy...”
– Peter Kreeft, Heaven, The Heart’s Deepest Longing, p. 215 (via theringofwords)
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“As far as I am concerned it is never a question if God exists. The question is...”
– Stanley Hauerwas
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“Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like tides of an...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via brojamin)
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The First Chapter of Peter Rollins' New Book (PDF) →
In this book I suggest that we stand once more at the threshold of such a question, a question that houses the power to provoke a rupturing and re-configuring of the present manifestation of Christianity. It is an incendiary question that houses the very power to set the Church alight, burning away the rot to reveal that which cannot be consumed. This is why the task of working through a...
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“In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better...”
– St. John Chrysostom (via orthodoxbrit)
“7. 1. The months passed, and the child [Mary] grew. When she was two years old...”
– Protevangelium of James
This class is going to be awesome.
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“But, in spite of these deficiencies, the wishes, the hopes, the confidence, the...”
– Jane Austen, Emma (via the-final-sentence)
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“In its own singular way religious belief in the triune God sums up the...”
– Elizabeth Johnson, Quest for the Living God
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“Called to be a sacrament of the world’s salvation, the church is to be a...”
– Elizabeth Johnson, Quest for the Living God
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“The cross signifies that God, who is love, whose will stands in contrast to such...”
– Elizabeth Johnson, Quest for the Living God
“It is one of the great ironies of history: While King spent the last year of his...”
– MLK Gets Set in Stone, but the Man Is Missing (via azspot)
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“How is the presence of God, precisely that God who delivered an enslaved people...”
– Elizabeth Johnson, Quest for the Living God
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“God is love and has promised to prove it.”
– Elizabeth Johnson, Quest for the Living God
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Anonymous asked: How do you interpret the fact that early Judaism was polytheistic?
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mshedden replied to your quote: There is no positive meaning in unjust radical…
I get what she is saying but doesn’t radical suffering mean something because it makes us like Jesus. That’s not “positive” but it is faithful. Following Jesus we can also give ourselves over to our enemies and overcome evil with good?
I think she’s saying that when Christians seek to construct theodices...
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“In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better...”
– St. John Chrysostom (via jamesfromta)
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“There is no positive meaning in unjust radical suffering that destroys persons....”
– Elizabeth Johnson, Quest for the Living God
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“Whoever I am, you know me, Oh God, you know I am yours.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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“We can know the God of compassion only in committed resistance to every form of...”
– Elizabeth Johnson, Quest for the Living God
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“Faith pivots on the belief that by the power of the Spirit Jesus died not into...”
– Elizabeth Johnson, Quest for the Living God
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“The self-communication of God to the world in the person of Jesus Christ as a...”
– Elizabeth Johnson, Quest for the Living God
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“At the heart of Christian faith is the almost unbelievable idea that the...”
– Elizabeth Johnson, Quest for the Living God
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simplyorthodox:
When perfect love has driven out fear, or fear has been transformed into love, then everything that has been saved will be a unity growing together through the one and only Fullness, and everyone will be, in one another, a unity in the perfect Dove, the Holy Spirit.
-St Gregory of Nyssa
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“Since our mind is not proportionate to the divine substance, God remains beyond...”
– St. Thomas Aquinas
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“If you have fully figured out who God is, then you are dealing with something...”
– Elizabeth Johnson, Quest for the Living God
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“While studies may be able to tell us which principles of life, business and...”
– Skye Jethani, With
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“Effectiveness is an odd value to be held in such high esteem by those of us who...”
– Skye Jethani, With
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“When the Bible is primarily seen as a depository of divine principles for life,...”
– Skye Jethani, With
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“Truth is what is true, and it’s not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not...”
– Madeleine L’Engle (via firstbreath90) 