Archive for April, 2009
Sunday, April 12th, 2009
get wiman on your radar
I spent this evening googling articles by a young poet named Cristian Wiman after having read his recent contribution, God is Not Beyond in the latest issue of The Christian Century. Here is an excerpt from that article:
“Our natures—and nature itself—are not
corrupt but unfinished. “All Creation groaneth and travaileth
together,” says Paul, which is exactly right. [...]
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
eating our way down emmaus
I got up to the kitchen around 7pm tonight and noticed right away the smell of fish cut straight through the muggy atmosphere. I had about five liters of white wine in two sacks and sat it on the counter where Marcus had been laboring for hours over the vongole. David and Serena were at [...]
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
around the traps
A review of Scot McKnight’s latest book on Fasting
A good overview of a book called UnChristian
Ben Myers on 10 virtues for theology students and on the theology of novelist John Updike
Peter Admirand at the Irish School of Ecumenics On Forgiving the Unforgivable?
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
the impractical church
“What if a church deliberately decides not to rent a bigger
space? What if they refuse to go into debt? What if they wait to raise
up leadership from within? What if they intentionally do the
counterintuitive, impractical thing every step of the way?”
A recent post called The Counterintuitive Church puts into words what we here in Ancona [...]
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
the metamorphosis of philip glass
In a recent interview, Philip Glass
talks about the kind of dispossession he has come to grips with over the years that
is required of the composer to make good, definitive music.
“After a ten or fifteen year period, I
would kind of forget that I had written [certain pieces]. I began functioning
in a different way. I began functioning [...]
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Saturday, April 4th, 2009
Friday, April 03, 2009
Go check out the following:
book review of God Does Not… – consider this book for your easter reading
interview with Hauerwas and Jean Vanier by Sojourner’s magazine
what is a missionary? – an article worth looking into if you think you play some part in missions…
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
vindication
I have three articles for you to check out today:
1) Nicholas Wolterstorff’s review of The Craftsman by Richard Sennett.
2) Thomas J. Bridges critiques Mark C. Taylor’s Death of God theology
3) Charles Guignon displays the “hatchet job” of S.J. McGrath’s (very) critical introduction to Heidegger [H/T: Anthony Paul Smith]
Back story on the 3rd article. I published [...]