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Convictions
I’ve posted this before, but saw it again on another blog. It’s so worth repeating!
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So… What do you know?
This New York Times piece gives bragging rights to atheists, who know more about religion than religious people. If the link to the survey works in the Times piece, give it a try. And in other news, a new book out says we may be able to have a better view of ourselves as Christians in America. The news isn’t…
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The Mosque, The Church, and the Koran
I realize I’m a “Johnny-come-lately” on much of this, mainly because much of it arose while I was on sabbatical and wasn’t blogging. Part of it comes from my desire to process things a little first before reacting. Much has been made of the “Ground Zero Mosque” that is moving forward. It is a mosque that is very close to…
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Leaks and Timing
The New York Times has returned to the glory days of journalism. They have to be as excited as the heady days of Watergate and the Pentagon Papers. They’re actually back to releasing truly bad news and casting bad lights on bad situations. They’ve released portions of thousands of pages of classified documents leaked to them about the situation in…
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Dead and Not Knowing It
There is a movie called “Frequency” that deals a little with communicating over a 30 year barrier. A son communicates with his father over an old ham radio, but the father had died as firefighter 30 years before. The son saves the dad’s life, but then endangers his mother because of a serial killer. (It’s a long story, so hopefully…
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Civil Disobedience
Chuck Colson is raising the possibilities of civil disobedience. I understand that there could be some point in my lifetime where there MIGHT be some issues that would cause a separation so severe that civil disobedience would be a course of action. What, in your opinion, would or would not constitute such a move?
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Whiplash Politics and Reactive Christianity
Another fine column by David Brooks in The New York Times illustrates our extreme unhappiness with all things government. We just can’t be satisfied. Those who want limited government really aren’t happy. Those who want government involvement aren’t happy, either. As Brooks points out, what HAS happened in the past ten years is government has become more pervasive, and that…
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Soccer… the “beautiful game”?
I watched Spain and the Netherlands in last Sunday’s World Cup Final. My love is baseball, but when the World Cup is on, I try and follow. One comment I hear consistently after a World Cup Final from commentators is they wished the final had been more “beautiful” or some such phrase. They feel, somehow, the final didn’t give a…
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The Liturgies of Our Lives
I am currently working my way through James K.A. Smith’s book, Desiring the Kingdom. Great writer! His analysis is that we all participate in liturgy. Every one of us. Saint, sinner. Believer, unbeliever. We have our liturgies and they form us. His analysis is very similar to that of Dallas Willard, who would say that everyone gets an education. It’s…
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The Distracted Pursuit of Unhappiness
“I have often said that the sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.” (Pascal) We have all the conveniences of technology, only to keep us more distracted than ever. We were supposedly using all this wonderful technology to free us up for more noble, or even leisurely, pursuits. But…
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