Category Archives: Faith

Toward a Sense of Suffering?

This last week we have been talking about the problem of evil in class.  It’s a short unit, but you’d like to think it’s something that will come back around (the discussion, not the evil) throughout a lifetime.  Attempting to … Continue reading

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Twenty-Three

Today marked the 23rd anniversary of the death of Rich Mullins.  While I deeply love A Liturgy, a Legacy, and a Ragamuffin Band, I have found Brother’s Keeper becoming a truly close second.  On some level, it feels a little … Continue reading

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“Hope Within the Longing”

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“Take Heart”

A new video for a great song.

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Pandemic Permanence

Today Rod Dreher spent some time reflecting on this piece from the Baptist Press concerning the long-term effects of Covid for churches.  The church that gets most of the mentions in the piece is a relatively short drive (in TN … Continue reading

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“A Little Incarnation”

From the introduction to Lewis’s Reflections on the Psalms: It seems to me appropriate, almost inevitable, that when that great Imagination which in the beginning, for Its own delight and for the delight of men and angels and (in their … Continue reading

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How Learning Flourishes

I’m just going to leave this video right here while I go kick myself for not watching it sooner.  It’s definitely something I’ll be sharing at school in the next couple of weeks.  Whenever I get bits like this from … Continue reading

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“Never See the End”

There is this strong sense that Our Current Moment feels somehow unending.  It can be easy to feel that way about a lot of things, good and bad.  But these last few days I’ve been encouraged and comforted by Mission … Continue reading

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Why It Matters

I’ve always been interesting in what can be found at the intersection of faith and art.  Now it’s also a bigger part of my task at work.  So when I found out that Christianity Today had published a piece featuring … Continue reading

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Minding the Messengers

In the section of Antifragile about “skin in the game,” Nassim Nicholas Taleb defines prophets and their task: Prophecy is a pledge of belief, little else.  A prophet is not someone who first had an idea; he is the one … Continue reading

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