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The Resurrection Optic
Over the Lenten season I’ve posted some short reflections on Erik Varden’s The Shattering of Loneliness. I think it appropriate to link to his Easter reflection, which I found to be short and sweet. You can read the whole thing … Continue reading
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Easter Sunday Refrain
A song for Easter Sunday: deep reminder of how big the day is and how utterly important is the One we celebrate it.
Remembrance Part Six
Throughout The Shattering of Loneliness, Erik Varden brings to attention a number of instances in the Biblical Story where remembrance is key. He started with the Ash Wednesday reminder that we are dust. From there he revisited call to remember … Continue reading
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John’s Maundy Thursday
Tonight I had the opportunity to attend a beautiful Tenebrae service at a local church where a dear friend serves on the worship team. It was a service full of good music, poignant testimonies, and full readings from the Gospel … Continue reading
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Remembrance Part Four
In one of two chapters on the theological virtue of faith in Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis encourages his readers to see the battle of faith as being between “faith and reason on one side and emotion and imagination on … Continue reading
Spring Break Scramble
This last week has gone by in a blur. That’s to be expected, of course, at the end of a quarter or semester. The week has been packed with classes and grading and meetings and trying to wrap things up … Continue reading
Remembrance Part Three
Perhaps the most sobering of Erik Varden’s reflections on remembrance in The Shattering of Loneliness comes in the third chapter. The chapter is centered on Jesus’s command in Luke 17 to “remember Lot’s wife.” The command to remember Lot’s … Continue reading
Reading in Lent
One of the practices I’m trying to hold to during the Lenten season is the reading of shorter books. Small thing, I know, but it feels somehow fitting. The season started as I finished up Zena Hitz’s Philosophers Look at … Continue reading
Remembrance Part Two.Five
Last week as I was thinking the second thing to remember from Erik Varden (remember you were once a slave in Egypt), a song from long ago came to mind. A bit of context from an odd source first, though. … Continue reading
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Remembrance Part Two
For me, most Lenten seasons start with the “bang” of Ash Wednesday but quickly fall into a slough of messy hopes and habits. That’s a cost of being interested in the church calendar as a member of a church that … Continue reading
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