January 2012
78 posts
My 2012 Resolution:
More baseball.
“Here it is, the gospel distilled: 1 Corinthians 15.1-5
Now, brothers and...”
– Experimental Theology: The King Jesus Gospel: No More Epicycles
December 2011
94 posts
“God does not repay evil for evil, and thus the righteous should not do so...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Aren’t we really under the impression that there are more important things than...”
– Bonhoeffer Of Heaven, salvation, and worldliness (Bonhoeffer and the Apostle Paul) « nijay k gupta
“God stands in contrast to man as the impossible in contrast to the possible, as...”
– Karl Barth (via brotherhilarius)
“To draw the curtains at night on a street where people bent against the wind,...”
– Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness
“We began with the question, ‘Where are they now?’ I have tried to articulate...”
– Tom Wright, For All The Saints, p. 71. (via hargaden)
“How can we enjoy pleasures amidst the calamities of our bretheren. May God...”
– Gregory of Nazianzus Do. Love. Walk.:
“According to Paul, God is on a mission to liberate humanity—and indeed the...”
– Participation and Mission in Paul « Cross Talk ~ crux probat omnia
“There, on the fringe of society,” writes Gustavo Gutiérrez, the Word became...”
– The Logic of the Incarnation | Ekklesia Project
“There has fallen on earth for a token
A god too great for the sky.
He has...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Gloria in Profundis. Gloria in Profundis « Shored Fragments
“Christmas tells us two big things. First, what changes things isn’t a formula...”
– Rowan Williams Archbishop asks ‘What Would Jesus Do?’ in Christmas issue…
“However, certainly in this season in which Christians celebrate the birth of the...”
– the12 - Scott Hoezee - Private and Personal?
“When were you saved? “I’m still waiting for it, in hope.”
When were you saved?...”
– Past, Present, and Future | Storied Theology
“Let us, then, meditate upon the Nativity just as we see it happening in our own...”
– Martin Luther (via wesleyhill)
“The created order, which God has begun to redeem in the resurrection of Jesus,...”
– N.T. Wright
“So to help you out, here’s a quick colloquial abridgement of Barth’s...”
– Faith and Theology: Karl Barth for beginners
“To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely — to step in the name...”
– Cornel West, Democracy Matters (via catechumenate)
“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to...”
– T. S. Eliot, “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets Invisible Foreigner:
“Timberg: Let’s talk about this in a specific instance — Cormac McCarthy’s novel...”
– Michael Chabon on ‘writers who can dwell between worlds’
“It is very important, fundamental, I would say, to learn to love, to really...”
– Pope Benedict XVI (via matthewclan)
“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is...”
– Pope John Paul II (via classyliving)
Watchcatechumenate:
Charles Taylor, “The Future of the Secular”
“First, he [Augustine] believe that God is not an impersonal Reason dispersed...”
–
Miroslav Volf, A Public Faith, p. 71.
(via hargaden)
“Christianity *did not* grow because of miracle working in the marketplaces...”
– Rodney Stark, The Rise of Christianity, p. 208. (via hargaden)
“The lynching tree - so strikingly similar to the cross on Golgotha - should have...”
– James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree (via invisibleforeigner)
“No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree”
– Martin Luther A thought for Christmas! « Euangelion
“Pardon the interruption. It is here! The Christ-child will come in a few short...”
– Dan Rhodes Pardon the Interruption: A Meditation on Luke 1:26-36 : The Other Journal
“Ah, so big a question! That is the whole question of theology, you see! I should...”
– Karl Barth, answering the question from a student, “What one thing, sir, would you tell a young pastor today if you were asked, is necessary in this day and age to pastor a Church?” (via wesleyhill)
“Yet with the woes of sin and strife
The world has suffered long;
Beneath the...”
– Experimental Theology: A Christmas Carol as Resistance Literature: It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
“Planting signs of the new world in the ruins of the old.”
– John Howard Yoder The Practices of the Church 2 “Breaking Bread Together” « Euangelion
“I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
“We do not undertake the spiritual quest alone. We need communities which nurture...”
– Marie McCarthy
“Sprituality in a Postmodern Era”
in The Blackwell Reader in Pastoral and Practical Theology
“Whenever a mere human being makes a promise, he stakes a claim on freedom. A...”
– CT Classic: Controlling the Unpredictable—The Power of Promising | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction
“Categorization (women’s writing, gay writing, Illinois writing) inflicts...”
– Ford, Richard (1944-)
“Since 2006, this simple formula has brought us Real Housewives, Mob Wives, and...”
– Reality Scorecard: Here Come the Baseball Wives - Hollywood Prospectus Blog
“And what else did [the first witnesses of Jesus’ public ministry] see? Here we...”
– Oliver O’Donovan (via wesleyhill)
“There are only two seasons — winter and Baseball.”
– Bill Veeck (via courts4494)
After a cold but satisfying walk to work today I was thinking exactly this.
“God was in Christ reconciling the world.By his atonement, Christ effected our...”
– What’s the gospel in seven words? Lamin Sanneh: “God was in Christ reconciling the world” | The Christian Century
Another attempt at the gospel in 7 Words.
“And I want to appropriate the word ‘God,’ take it way from those who believe in...”
– Herbert McCabe, Faith Within Reason (New York: Continuum, 2007), 47.
(via chary)
“The Word is weaker than any ideology, and this means that with only the gospel...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“We know God the Father only in his Son as he clothes himself in the gospel.”
– Protestant Reformers