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Anselm on Teaching, Seeking, Desiring
We introduce Anselm and his version of the ontological argument for God’s existence relatively early in our junior Bible class. Sometimes it clicks, sometimes it doesn’t; we consider it as much because it was the first of its kind as … Continue reading
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“Where There’s a Will . . .”
We’re just over three months into the “Desert Fathers in a Year” series. So far, my favorite saying comes from the section on hesychia, which relates to the idea of deep peace. The saying comes from Abba Arsenius: Abba Mark … Continue reading
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Good Words from Seth
Seth Godin has had a few resonant posts for me these last couple of weeks that are worth bookmarking and sharing. In this post, he talks about slowing down and speeding up. The post’s last line: Hurry, but don’t rush. … Continue reading
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Just As I Am [January 17, 2025]
This past Christmas break was the first one where I felt like all of the “unbundling” of the last few years of work and church could finally be felt. There was a lightness to things for me, an appropriate size … Continue reading
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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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The Fuel You Use
I’ve thought a good bit about internal and external motivations since my trip to Yosemite. There’s an echo of that conversation in this recent post by Seth Godin, where he writes about what “fuels” you. Motivation matters, I think. But … Continue reading
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
Returning to Psalm 16
Yesterday’s readings in the Daily Office brought me back around to Psalm 16. If I didn’t already use the first part of Psalm 27 on test days in class, I’d probably start using chunks of this one. It “works” on … Continue reading
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Towards a Beautiful, Virtuous Life
Reflections on Mortal Goods by Ephraim Radner, Part Six Much of the first chunk of Ephraim Radner’s Mortal Goods is an attempt to “get the lay of the land.” God gives us life to live, but the days in which … Continue reading
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Made in the Midbar
Reflections on Mortal Goods by Ephraim Radner, Part Four One of the first “5-minute finds” that we do in our senior-level class involves the ancient concept of eudaemonia, the term the ancient Greeks used for a good or flourishing life. … Continue reading
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