February 2012
55 posts
“A dead person can only be raised, *resurrected*, and grave sin can only be...”
–
Karl Barth, The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life, p. 24.
(via hargaden)
“Ruler of the Night, Guarantor of the day …
This day — a gift from you.
This...”
– Walter Brueggemann, “Marked by Ashes” from Prayers for a Privileged People (via catechumenate)
“I lost all feeling of my own identity. I reflected on the desolation of...”
– Dorothy Day
The Long Loneliness
“are a culture consuming itself with information, and many of us do not even...”
– Neil Postman
“Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made and dost...”
– Collect for Ash Wednesday
“1 God
with a 5 Act story
Act 1 begins with nothing
and then Creation
the...”
– Andy Goodlliff
““The community is confronted and created by the Word of God. It is the...”
– Karl Barth, Evangelical Theology
“Piper’s Christ is a raceless God-man, focused intently on a violent sacrifice...”
– Brian Bantum, Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian – A Review
“When we take seriously the life of Christ and the lives of Christians of...”
– Brian Bantum, Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian – A Review
“What then does being poor mean? I believe that a good definition does not exist;...”
– Gustavo Gutierrez Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity, and the Americas, pg. 72
“I say mystery is the only certainty
That embracing nothingness
as hard as you...”
– Elegy for Christopher Hitchens, Whom I Only Met Twice By Mary Karr
“to live in this world
you must be able
to do three things
to love what is...”
– Mary Oliver (via susannathinks)
“I don’t have anything to say. I feel all out of words inside. I give her the...”
– Raymond Carver, “Gazebo,” in Raymond Carver: Collected Stories (New York: The Library of America, 2009), 237. (via chary)
“If what’s always distinguished bad writing— flat characters, a narrative world...”
– David Foster Wallace (via kadrey)
“Walking down the street, Jesus saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked,...”
– John 9:1-5, The Message Transforming Corrupted Assumptions in John 9 « Faith Improvised
“Love all of God’s creation, both the whole of it and every grain of sand. Love...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990), 319.
(via chary)
“Why am I compelled to write?… Because the world I create in the writing...”
– Gloria Anzaldúa (via susannathinks)
“The upshot of all of this is that theological ethics should not in any way try...”
– Karl Barth, The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life, p. 9-10. (via hargaden)
“OK. Historically the stuff that’s sort of rung my cherries: Socrates’ funeral...”
– David Foster Wallace on some of his favorite books.
Slate (via chary)
“Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic,...”
– C.S. Lewis, on prayer. (via thebeeble)
“In God we live, move, and exist.”
– Acts 17:28a, Common English Bible
“The effect of beauty, therefore, is good to the degree that, through its...”
– W. H. Auden, “Making, Knowing, and Judging” (in The Dyer’s Hand)
“And the Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed, because it is...”
– Tertullian (via shneevon)
“In short, John Piper is not helping the cause of either orthodox theology or...”
– Ben Witherington, John Piper on Men in Ministry, and the Masculinity of Christianity
“The movie ‘The Tree of Life’ makes clear despite all the beauty in this world,...”
– Ben Witherington Good Grief— The Way of Grace « The Bible and Culture
“Be sure to begin and end precisely at the time appointed. Sing no hymn of your...”
– John Wesley’s Advice on Preaching « Euangelion
“‘Writing means revealing onesself to excess … This is why one can never be alone...”
– Franz Kafka via Jason
“After I wrote “The Falling Man” in 2003, I got a call from a friend...”
– Mad Men Season 5 Poster Controversy - Falling (Mad) Man, by Tom Junod - Esquire
“She tells the story of Jason, a fourteen year old boy with profound intellectual...”
– Stanley Hauerwas Do Human Rights have a foundation in Hebrew and Christian Scriptures? – Opinion – ABC Religion & Ethics (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
“Hebrews shows us that we must be very intentional about establishing and...”
– David DeSilva Hebrews & the Cultivation of Christian Community « Faith Improvised
“A Severe mercy
A Painful grace
The Valley of shadow
Time can’t erase....”
– Ben Witherington reflecting on the death of his Daughter. Good Grief: Soundings, Part Six – The Ante-Chamber to Eternity « The Bible and Culture
“In The Open Secret, Lesslie Newbigin says that: Mission…is faith in action. It...”
– The Sacrament of Mission |
“This ain’t a football game, we do this every day.” - Earl Weaver”
– A fitting quote for Super Bowl Sunday. Do not lose hope catcher’s and pitchers report soon. It’s a long season.
“Maybe nobody will care about printed books 50 years from now, but I do. When I...”
– Jonathan Franzen doesn’t like ebooks (via sometimesagreatnotion)
“Great is baseball. The national tonic. The reviver of hope. The restorer of...”
– The Sporting News, 1931 (via @duanexharris)
“Truth is not a set of propositions; rather, truth is Jesus Christ.”
– Stanley Hauerwas (via firstbreath90)
“We need not expect that life leads to sitting and possessing — in no sense, at...”
– Karl Barth, in a sermon on the final Sunday of 1913 (via Bruce McCormack’s Kantzer Lectures)
“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 (via bookmania)
“The Gospel requires—faith. Only for those who believe is it the power of God...”
– Karl Barth, Epistle to the Romans, i.1 16, (p. 38)
“The cross reveals an abyss of sin swallowed up by the suffering of divine love.”
– George Hunsinger, Disruptive Grace, pp 143. (via cabematthews)
“I more and more find the precious part of each day to be the thirty or forty...”
– Lesslie Newbigin (via wesleyhill)