Jurgen Moltmann’s Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology totally online! A group of us were asked whether we looked towards the future with a sense of hope. Let me pick out some sentences from a famous chapter from the book to help me sleep with more confidence tonight…
Month: April 2007
Christ the Center
I saw this book at Gladsounds Bookstore for many years. Finally I got it because it had 60% discount!!! It’s thin 88page book. When I showed it to some friends over dinner one night, the few who looked at it gave me a “wow this looks like a complicated book” look 🙂 The Light of…
The Revised Common Lectionary – Vanderbilt
I’m sitting here having a fresh look at the various texts which will serve as my “lenses” to see the world in this great 50 Days of Easter. I’m a little intrigued how I have landed up loving the “lectionary” way of reading the Bible. 🙂
Community or Communitas?
Here’s some precious insights on “community” highlighted by Pastor Rod that connects with a lot of what is on my mind the past weeks. There is a lot of talk in the church about community. But there seems to be too little experience of true community. Anthropologist Victor Turner suggests that we should think about…
Coming to Terms with Life
“I have come to terms with life – nothing can happen to me, and my personal fate is not the issue…. By ‘coming to terms with life’ I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life has, so to speak, been extended by death, by looking death in…
Random Links 145
Gunman Kills 32 in Virginia Tech Rampage Sad and shocking … tragic news of Virginia Tech shootings Thanks DJ Chuang for the updates Archbishop of Canterbury – church needs to listen properly to the bible (HT: AKMA) “…before Scripture is read in private, it is heard in public. Those of us who assume that the…
Is Christianity true? or …
“The question that one must ask is not, ‘is Christianity true’ (at least not yet), but rather ‘what is it that Christianity claims when it claims to be true’.” – Pete Rollins Pete’s insight above and the whole post stuck with me the whole day and re-emerges tonight before I sleep. No, I will sleep…
Openness and Ownership
“Don’t confuse openness with ownership. Owning a vision comes through labor intensive repetition. There is no other way. Many are open – only the repeatedly exposed fan come to own it. “ – Max DuPree (HT: Ron Martoia) I’m learning this all over again … a full cycle … what I need to strengthen is…
Table Talk with USAmericans who Listen
I’m getting a hang of using wordpress after using movabletype since the day this blog was born … wow in 2002! Look at the archives. Spending with Phil Baker and Mike Fonner was an absolute joy. They are very much more our seniors in terms of ministry and life experience. And yet the posture they…
I’m back
I’m back blogging with new skin for this current “Garden” blog where’s it’s mostly initial thouhgts and another new blog … S e c o n d T h o u g h t s ? ! for the thoughts that have gone through a little more revision.