I’m disturbed tonight as I read about the late young Dally here in Mutilated body of 7-year-old girl shatters refugees’ dream and Stench leads to gory find. This was brought to my attention last night at one of our LiFE Group meetings by a member. And this morning I got an email with more news….
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Why do we sing?
“The bird does not sing because it has answers. It sings because it has a song.” – Chinese proverb quoted by Margaret Somerville in the first of her lectures on The Ethical Imagination (HT: Parking Lot) Elysia loves singing … she sings in the car, she sings when i carry her, she sings at my…
Holy Spirit
“Holy Spirit, giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out their mistakes, healing their wounds, you are our true life, luminous, wonderful, awakening the heart from its ancient sleep.” – Hildegard of Bingen (HT: inward/outward) I woke up from a “fulfilling” 40 wink nap a while…
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The Retention Factor Some good practical advice here, I shared some of it to people last week — > “Take the 3rd party learning approach as much as possible. This means learning and reading as if you were going to teach the same material to someone tonight.” The Passion: The Gospel as Political Parody Ched…
Random Thoughts before trying to sleep
This week has been quite a week indeed. Coming back from a memorial service for Brother Eric Kirton created some space for me to reflect on significant issues. A number of days earlier I was watching and walking with a member of my church losing his mom was hard. It’s hard to be professional about…
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William Wilberforce as Evangelical Leftist? Good challenge — > “How many evangelicals–or any of the rest of us–recognize that the long haul is the only way to get things done politically? Yes, things do eventually come to exciting crises, but the way those crises “break” has a lot to do with the processes that precede…
Blog Watch
The Church Then and Now: Current Trends in the Church Eddie Gibbs blogs! The Forgotten Ways Will get to reading this book soon. Still got two more Aussie books to catch up! LeRon Shults: Embracing the Delightful Terror of Reforming Theology This guys is REALLY “terror!” (to use a Malaysian expression) Morehead’s Musings From the…
An Inconvenient Truth
Go watch it and then make up your mind. I like one of the quotes during the closing credits … “When you pray, move your feet.”
Talking about “Universal Particularities?”
My friend Sherman Kuek has a new surge of blogging energy before his engagement … which is a good sign, It’s concentrated here in Universal Particularities? for a start. For me it’s interesting how this “contextual” bit needs to be stressed in his blog. Perhaps not so much for those who are already aware that…
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A simplified summary of John H. Yoder’s classic book: The Politics of Jesus by Nathan Hobby with James Patton One of our church members was hoping to introduce some of Yoder’s key ideas to a LiFe Group. I found the appendixes helpful. This link provides a little more info. Ten Propositions on the Resurrection Easter…