Rowland Croucher
SELF-AWARENESS
TOWARD A REFORMED THEOLOGY OF SELF-AWARENESS Mike Johnson September 29, 2011 John Calvin includes this peculiar statement in the introduction to his institutes: ¢â‚¬Å“Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. ¢â‚¬ It is such a strange statement from someone so focused on God first and foremost. This statement sounds like something that would […]
Loving God Loving Others
Review: Loving God Loving Others: The Jesus Creed for Students by Scot McKnight (and a couple of others), Paraclete Press 2011 In 2006, a gunman entered a one-room Amish school building in Pennsylvania and shot ten schoolchildren, killing five of them before turning the gun on himself. Any person in their right mind would immediately […]
Humo[u]r
One who runs in front of the car gets tired. One who runs behind gets exhausted. ================ A young man bought an expensive piece of jewelry as a present for his girlfriend. ¢â‚¬Å“Don ¢â‚¬â„¢t you want her name engraved on it? ¢â‚¬ asked the clerk. The young man thought for a moment, and then, ever the realistic, […]
The Church/Porn Connection
by Scott Morgan Awareness ¢â‚¬“ Lust A Hidden Pandemic By the time a person reaches 21 years of age, Barna ¢â‚¬â„¢s research estimates they will have viewed more than 2,000 hours, on average, of pornographic images that reduce the dignity and value of human life. (Barna, 2010, Media Exposure, Addiction). There is no distinction between […]
Henri Nouwen: still more wisdom
Reflecting God’s perfect love God’s love for us is everlasting. That means that God’s love for us existed before we were born and will exist after we have died. It is an eternal love in which we are embraced. Living a spiritual life calls us to claim that eternal love for ourselves so that we […]
Romney, Mormonism, and the American Compromise
Sightings 2/16/2012 Romney, Mormonism, and the American Compromise – Terryl Givens Mitt Romney is threatening to disturb the American compromise with Mormonism. Nineteenth-century observers were largely indifferent to the new religion Joseph Smith founded in 1830. Most dismissed his claims about angels and gold plates as just another example of American gullibility. ¢â‚¬Å“Had we not seen in […]
Romantic love
Romantic love is, at heart, the triumph of hormonal alchemy Rob Brooks February 14, 2012 ‘When we fall in love we surrender to natural obsession.’ Human coupling and relationships seethe with sexual conflict. VALENTINE’S Day. What’s not to love about overpriced roses, overbooked restaurants and overstuffed soft toys? It’s the day we render the most […]
Merton’s famous prayer…
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, And the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am […]
Mere Apologetics
Review: Mere Apologetics: How to Help Seekers and Skeptics Find Faith (Alister McGrath, Baker, 2012). Alister McGrath and Tom Wright are the two most prolific ¢â‚¬Ëœconservative evangelical ¢â‚¬â„¢ theological writers in the U.K. these days. [1] But there ¢â‚¬â„¢s something unusual about their approach (and this is especially true of the ¢â‚¬Ëœlater ¢â‚¬â„¢ McGrath): they ¢â‚¬â„¢re becoming less prescriptive […]
The Ethics of Solitude
Feb 13th, 2012 by Rushworth M. Kidder Years ago, as the head of a university honors program, I noticed that a disproportionately large number of honors students were musicians. In one sense, that wasn ¢â‚¬â„¢t surprising: The university had a large and highly competitive music school, so there were lots of musicians to begin with. But […]
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