One of my contemporary favs ... it is my hope. Maybe it will be yours t...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
Turn the Page ...Well I am beginning a new decade of my life today. I have denied it all day long but there is no getting around it. If I revert to the old Julian calendar I might post pone it for a little while or if I calculate it out using the Mayan calendar I might even be older ... So I decided to take some stock in what is going on in my life. I did not want to go to deep you know so this is safely superficial!!Well first of all I took in Star Wars: The Clone Wars this weekend with Rachael and Talya. Honestly it was much better than I...
Friday, August 22, 2008
Praying with Romans and ManassehGreetings from the land of Saguaros, Scorpions, Javilena's and Heat. As I was praying with Paul in Romans this morning, through lectio divina, I was captivated by the notion of "bragging," "boasting" or spiritual arrogance in our relationship with God. As I ruminated on that picture generated by Paul my mind drifted to another spiritual text. One filled with the opposite attitude displayed before God.My mind was taken to the Prayer of Manasseh. It is one of the most beautiful pieces ever composed, in my opinion....
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global SouthOver the last few years Philip Jenkins, Professor of Religion at Penn State, has made a name as one of the best observers of global Christianity. In 2002 his The Next Christendom revealed to many for the first time that Christianity is changing radically. Not because of liberalism but because its center of influence is leaving the North Atlantic to Africa, South America and Asia....
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
Unforgiven II by Metallica is a Great Song ... Lots of Metallica's music is sort of "dark" and captures the mood of many folks wandering aimlessly through this postmodern haze we are in. Sometimes the haze is from the crap of life and we are branded "unforgiven" and treated as such. I simply like this song ...
You know what sometimes you just have to say "Good-bye." Photographs bring up all kinds of memories. Good ones. Bad ones. In between ones. Sometimes there is absolutely nothing you can do ... nothing! Well you can cuss but folks don't like that. You can complain but that does not good. But as far as changing "it" there is NOTHING you can do. Except say "Good-bye" and move on. Sometimes you just have to do it. Great song by one of the few rock bands arou...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
For those who have not read John Mark Hicks recent posts on "It Ain't that Complicated" I would like to recommend them to you. I want to suggest that we can learn a lot about the proper reading of the biblical text from our Fathers and Mothers in the faith. Karl Barth once asked "Are we at liberty to ignore the past? Do the great teachers of the Church ... not possess a -- certainly not heavenly -- but, even so, earthly, human 'authority? We should...
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Practicing the Presence ... of God There are times when we reduce Christian faith to the subtleties of doctrine or practice. It is interesting that one's eternal fate is often judged on the basis of the most esoteric point ... even when Scripture itself says very little (and sometimes nothing) about this or that. But the "big" things that are present in every section of Scripture are ironically devalued. Theology is important. But it is not important...
Monday, August 4, 2008
See also my post Book of Judith: God Saves Through a Woman and Susanna: Legendary Woman on the Family. See also The Apocrypha: Reading Between the Testaments. At the outset let it be stated that some will read this post and wish I had not written it. They will scratch their heads and perhaps wring their hands in frustration. Yet frustration at misinformation (perpetuated often for polemical reasons) and candor moves me to share a few things...
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