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Communion, Community, and the Soul
I’d like to spend a few posts this week reflecting on Curt Thompson’s The Soul of Desire, a book I mostly read while in Tennessee this summer. I’d like to start with a few quotes and three points of to … Continue reading
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Summer Reading: The Soul of Desire (part one)
One book I was able to finish before starting my summer mainland trip was Curt Thompson’s Anatomy of the Soul. I did not intend to read his The Soul of Desire this summer, too, but it’s what I found myself … Continue reading
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Summer Reading: Fountain of Salvation
One of the books that I finished reading during my summer retreat was Fountain of Salvation by Fred Sanders. Unlike The Deep Things of God, Sanders’s other recent book on the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, Fountain of Salvation is … Continue reading
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In the Backpack
Frederick Buechner starts The Alphabet of Grace, his theological “slice of life” book, with this wonderfully true assertion: At its heart most theology, like most fiction, is essentially autobiographical. Aquinas, Calvin, Barth, Tillich, working out their systems in their own … Continue reading
Choices and the Day-to-Day
My favorite quote from a great piece by Kirsten Sanders about Christianity and the nature of everyday life: Discernment doesn’t mean that you are responsible for the result of your own choices. It means that at the end of your … Continue reading
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Advent Ending
While it didn’t quite happen, I did have high hopes for a solid Advent season. I had planned on slowly reading through some of Augustine’s “Advent homilies” as recently collected by the Davenant Institute. Unfortunately, not even pre-ordering the books … Continue reading
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Civilization, Culture, and What Comes Next
I finally got around to watching Paul Kingsnorth’s “Against Christian Civilization” lecture. I kept putting it off but had a good friend that kept reminding me to watch it. It does not disappoint. What he has to say is difficult … Continue reading
On Screening Screens
The conversation around smart phones and social media and screens continues, with schools being a primary flashpoint. Two people behind this necessary focus have been Andy Crouch (of The Tech-Wise Family) and Jonathan Haidt (of The Anxious Generation). The two … Continue reading
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Against Reductionism
Fred Sanders begins The Deep Things of God with a distinction that is worth making in many areas: the emphatic and the reductionistic. He’s thinking specifically of the Trinity in relation to the many other things that healthy evangelical Christians … Continue reading
Benedict and Radner
Reflections on Mortal Goods by Ephraim Radner, Part Seven I find two things particularly encouraging as Radner brings the first major section of Mortal Goods to a close. He has already laid the groundwork for a conversation about “Christian politics” … Continue reading
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