Posts Tagged ‘ life ’

I bet I can find 1 person who is tired of seeing status updates of who’s joining the group that can find 1,000,000 people who DO NOT or DO approve of the new health care bill. I was seriously tempted to make that my status update the other day, but decided against it. I...
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Today I followed through on what I had been feeling like I wanted to do for a few weeks now. Each day over these few weeks, the readiness to lose my dreadlocks increased.  Today I was finally able to put the scissors and clippers to my head.  I feel more like myself now, though...
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Just watched Away We Go, a film starring Jim from the Office (John Krasinski) and Maya Rudolph.  Marie and I thought this was an excellent film.  It is definitely more my style and less Marie’s, but she was glad we got it and watched it finally.  There was a good balance of humor and...
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“If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say both as a novelist and a preacher, it would be something like this: Listen to your life.  See it for the fathomless mystery that it is.  In the boredom and pain of it no...
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this week’s reading comes from dorothy c. bass, craig dykstra, and amy plantiga pauw on religious/christian practice and beliefs.  bass and dykstra focus their chapter in practicing theology on defining practice as a term and its uniqueness to the religious.  plantiga pauw focuses on the gap between beliefs and practices.  bass and dykstra present...
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continuing in my reading of ecclesiology with william placher, but especially, veli-matti karkkainen, i have found something to possibly latch onto.  both pannenberg and moltmann propose the ideal of a political ecclesiology (my phrase; not theirs). each do it in their own way, but i found it to be a compelling thought.  both men...
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I have to keep reminding myself, as do my fellow colleagues, that this is only an introductory course in theology and that everything is really a fly-by. It would take me several courses and a few months of pouring through each of these particular areas of theology that we are covering just to get...
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I am blogging again…kind of. There is an option in my Theology II class for doing our reading responses via blog. So, to be my eco-friendly self, I went that route, as did the rest of my reading group. So I decided to put my responses up on my sister blog, which I haven’t...
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Louis Dupre, in an interview with Ted and Winnie Brock, talks about mysticism, integration, spirituality, and interiority. Not really an easy set of topics to cover in an interview but Dupre seems so connected to what he speaks about that it comes off very smoothly. He talks about our world, namely the West, in...
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This is now the third time I’ve been assigned to read the 7th chapter of Leslie Newbigin’s seminal book since coming to Mars Hill. I was also assigned this book during an independent study in my undergrad days. So, having read this chapter four times now I think I have a pretty good handle...
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