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No Formation Without Repetition
Soon after finishing up my final post on the topic, I found out that Brazos Press had released one more video of James K. A. Smith talking about his new book, You Are What You Love. The video, appropriately enough, … Continue reading
Letting Go of the Right Things
One of my favorite scenes from the final season of Community was the final episode’s last conversation between Annie and Jeff. As always, Jeff is a mess. He’s feeling the frustration of being “the only one left” after watching … Continue reading
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This Is Forty
I have to admit: I don’t feel forty. Granted, also have to admit that I’m writing this Tuesday night, a couple of days shy of actually turning the big 4-0. Even still, forty feels like a strange number to hear … Continue reading
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Worship as a Kind of Training
Yesterday’s excerpt from Smith’s You Are What You Love pointed to the possibility of the Church as being the (re)training ground for loving well. Here’s Smith talking more about that in the context of worship.
Re-Training Days
And so we are people who long and want but who long at want wrongly. And while we long and want sinfully, we sometimes long for and want things for reasons beyond us. How do we learn to long and … Continue reading
“The Glitz and Gleam of New Things”
Yesterday I posted an excerpt from James K. A. Smith’s You Are What You Love that spoke of how we are shaped, how we are (de)formed by things that work on a level different from and deeper than we are … Continue reading
Reconnecting Worship and Worldview
I’m about halfway through my (digital) copy of James K. A. Smith’s You Are What You Love (which releases in print on April 5). Smith’s Desiring the Kingdom has been one of the most formative books on practice that I’ve read … Continue reading
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
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
Space Enough, and Time 