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More Out There
David Brooks in a 2008 Op Ed piece on our need for enchantment and the benefits of the ‘discarded image’. The medievals had a tremendous capacity for imagination and enchantment, and while nobody but the deepest romantic would want to go back to their way of thinking (let alone their…
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What’s out there?
Over at space.com there are some pretty stunning photos taken from the European Southern Observatory in Chile. We are raising a generation who have no concept of what a stunning promise was made to Abraham that his descendants would be more numerous than the stars in the sky. In addition…
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Counterfeit Gods: Money Changes Everything
Greediness was often categorized by the Medieval philosophers and theologians as either covetousness (avaritia) or gluttony (gula). As an excessive love, greed is either the excessive love of pleasure/comfort or the excessive love of power/welfare. Keller brings out the two-sidedness of greed when shares the illustration about the husband and…
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GPC DGroup: Chosen by God, Chapter 1
As we start Chosen by God by R.C. Sproul there are a number of things that we must consider at the onset. Firstly, we need our faith to be conformed by what is true and not by what we understand. As both Protestant and Reformed, the scriptures are the foundation…
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Deep Church Discussion, Chapter 1
In Chapter 1, Jim Belcher explains how this book is the consequence of a very personal quest as to a biblical ecclesiology. As he pursues this quest, he comes to realize that there seems to be a tension which pits two caricatures as two unbridgeable and divergent options: Emergent/Emerging OR…
Backward Mutters 