February 2011
29 posts
“Backlit screens are something we’ve grown very used to without realizing what...”
– JDueck.Net : Calm Eyes Again One Day
You might also be interested in Joel’s other writing.
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January 2011
70 posts
“As Paul says, God demonstrates God’s power in our weakness. In speaking up...”
– Voice lessons | The Christian Century
“The Christian life is not a quiet escape to a garden where we can walk and talk...”
– Eugene Peterson
“In general terms, service is a willing, working, and doing in which a person...”
– Karl Barth
WatchA fairly interesting TED talk.
“against the wall, the firing squad ready.then he got a reprieve.suppose they had...”
– “Dostoevsky,” by Charles Bukowski
“Christian salvation is thus fundamentally transformational and relational, the...”
– Chrisendom: Review of Campbell’s Deliverance PART 14
“The most basic tenet of Christianity is that the future of God has broken into...”
– Tim Suttle: A Christian Response to Tucson: Embracing Words That Heal
“As, therefore Jonah passed from the ship to the belly of the whale, so Christ...”
– St. Augustine
“In John, Jesus invites us, like the disciples, to “come and see” what he is...”
– On What We Show Jesus at Creideamh.ie
“Both eventually came to terms with the burdens they carried, and their...”
– Very interesting article on JD Salinger via Holden Caulfield’s Goddam War | Culture | Vanity Fair
“It is perhaps worth considering, moreover, that theology requires a far greater...”
– Reason #1 to not even try being a theologian from David Bentley Hart On Why I’m Such A Great Dinner Party Guest at Creideamh.ie
“The political novelty that God brings into the world is a community of those who...”
– John Howard Yoder via Hauerwas’s Response « boo to a goose
“But American Christians, I must say to you as I said to the Roman Christians...”
– Paul’s Letter to American Christians, by Dr. M.L. King, Jr. « Cross Talk ~ crux probat omnia This come from my favorite sermon by MLK that you can read in short collection of his sermons, titled A Knock at Midnight. I think it is also online somewhere.
“‘Holiness’, he writes, ‘does not mean that you are any better than anyone else....”
– Public Theology: The Homosexuality of William Stringfellow
“Bonhoeffer did not fear death. “Death is the supreme festival on the road to...”
– The Grounds of Courage
“By entering through faith into what God has always wanted to do for us—set us...”
– Romans 5:1-3, MSG
“Faith is a terribly caustic substance, a burning acid. It puts to the test every...”
– Jacques Ellul, Living Faith: Belief and Doubt in a Perilous World.
“They never spoke of the horse again, but from that day on he spent more time...”
– Faith and Theology: The horses
“‘O Lord, refresh our sensibilities. Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to...”
– A prayer for refreshed sensibilities « P e r ∙ C r u c e m ∙ a d ∙ L u c e m
“First, they are to be faithful (pistoí). They are called to believe, and they...”
– Some encouragement for preachers « P e r ∙ C r u c e m ∙ a d ∙ L u c e m
“Lest we forget that hard word of that sermon is good news preached to us by none...”
– The Ekklesia Project: Voice lessons
“Rest is not simply about stopping. When we stop from our work, what we are...”
– Norman Wirzba
