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Song for the Weekend
From the July 1997 Cornerstone Festival. Mullins’s The Jesus Record is a good and appropriate album for this weekend.
Benedict Option Debrief
A couple of days ago, I posted a video of Rod Dreher talking about “the Benedict Option.” It’s been both an interesting and controversial topic, a kind of Rorschach test for Christians and their understandings of the relationship between church … Continue reading
Recalibrating the Heart
James K. A. Smith’s newest book, You Are What You Love, drops in a couple of weeks. Brazos Press has been releasing short videos of Smith talking about the book each week. Here’s the most recent video, which ends with … Continue reading
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Understanding the Benedict Option
Yesterday I used the storyline of Kung Fu Panda 3 as a segue into talking about Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option. Here’s a talk that Dreher gave last year at a Q Conference (learn more about that organization here). In the video, … Continue reading
Kung Fu Panda 3 and the Benedict Option
The story of Kung Fu Panda 3 begins with adversaries on parallel paths. Po, the hero of the series, is set to take on the duties of teacher. At the same time, the villain Kai has returned from the spirit … Continue reading
Tapping into the Heart
Here’s a second video from Brazos Press leading up to the release of James K. A. Smith’s You Are What You Love. Along with its predecessor, the video is a nice taste of what Smith seems to have been thinking … Continue reading
The Ever-Present Future
Douglas Coupland has been writing and drawing us into the future for some time. He has a particular knack for “getting things right” years before they happen. While I don’t always enjoy his short essays for the Financial Times, I … Continue reading
Singular Song
I started the week with my favorite song from Steven Curtis Chapman’s new album, Worship and Believe. Thought I’d close out the week in a similar fashion. Here’s “One True God,” a song that retells the biblical story and points … Continue reading
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Taking a Dip in Myth
Lewis continued his discussion of The Lord of the Rings as myth in “The Dethronement of Power,” his review of The Two Towers and The Return of the King that appeared in the October 1955 issue of Time and Tide. … Continue reading
Nostalgia and Narsil
In his review of The Fellowship of the Ring, Lewis tackles the charges of “fiction as escapism or nostalgia” head-on. We saw hints of it in yesterday’s excerpt. We get an even better sense of it in the selection below. … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 