LeRon Shults, on Emergent: “Emergent aims to facilitate a conversation among persons committed to living out faithfully the call to participate in the reconciling mission of the biblical God. Whether it appears in the by-laws of a congregation or in the catalog of an educational institution, a “statement of faith” tends to stop conversation. Such [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Birthday Bowling with Family and Friends
March 6, 2007 – 11:22 pm
We just celebrated our son’s birthday with a family and friend outing to the local bowling alley! He and a bunch of his friends spent an afternoon on pizza, cake, soda, gift exchanges, funny shoes, and, of course, lots of bumper bowling. My son looked like he was going to be the afternoon’s high score [...]
Ten Years toward a Personal Manifesto
March 6, 2007 – 6:40 pm
I imagine Christian formation was much, much simpler in ages gone by wherein one did not have unrestricted access to the world’s evolving cache of raw information … Bunyan’s Christian has got nothing on me, I’ll tell you that much (Christian is the main character and journeyer in John Bunyan’s spiritual classic The Pilgrim’s Progress). [...]
Finding God in Our Difference and Diversity
March 5, 2007 – 8:44 pm
Note: I am presently participating in a seminary class re: Judaism. Thankfully, it is a class actually taught by a Rabbi, rather than the more familiar academic and experiential fiasco that is a Christian prof. attempting to teach Judaism. There is an authentic difference. This class is one of my semester highlights, to say the [...]
Our Subjugation to the Subsidiary and Mutinous
March 2, 2007 – 9:02 am
The following excerpt from David B. Hart’s The Doors of the Sea properly ’sets the table’ for Christus Victor: