NOTE FROM CM: I’m sorry everyone. I have been distracted this week by changes at my work and failed to notice that I accidentally put up part of the Romans post today rather than tomorrow. I have rescheduled it for tomorrow and deleted all comments. We’ll start fresh tomorrow morning. Again — sorry. Also, don’tContinue reading “God’s Good Earth: The Case for an Unfallen Creation, by Jon Garvey, Chapter 10 – The Non-Presentation of Self in Everyday Life”
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Bruggemann: Our life with God — characteristically open and unsettled
Ah, when I need something to really chew on, Walter Bruggemann is always a good go-to. I have testified here at IM to a journey of having learned something much different than what I was taught in my evangelical background. That is, that God and his people, particularly as portrayed in the Hebrew Bible, shareContinue reading “Bruggemann: Our life with God — characteristically open and unsettled”
Another Look: A spirituality “not pressed through the pores”
Another Look: A spirituality “not pressed through the pores” A saint is capable of loving created things and enjoying the use of them and dealing with them in a perfectly simple, natural manner, making no formal references to God, drawing no attention to his own piety, and acting without any artificial rigidity at all. HisContinue reading “Another Look: A spirituality “not pressed through the pores””
Another Look: No Right Way Once and For All
What you must realize, what you must even come to praise, is the fact that there is no right way that is going to become apparent to you once and for all. The most blinding illumination that strikes and perhaps radically changes your life will be so attenuated and obscured by doubts and dailiness thatContinue reading “Another Look: No Right Way Once and For All”
Sunday with Michael Spencer: The lived spiritual life is a frequent contradiction
Sunday with Michael Spencer The lived spiritual life is a frequent contradiction I remember the depths of my own dark night in September of 2001. I was at the point of breaking down and being unable to preach or teach, a condition I had never faced before. I was as far from God as itContinue reading “Sunday with Michael Spencer: The lived spiritual life is a frequent contradiction”
The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: July 27, 2019 — Politics free edition
, The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: July 27, 2019 Today’s Brunch is a “politics free” zone. We had enough of that yesterday, as you can see in the action shot above, taken from yesterday’s comment section. So today, just relax, laugh, and tend your wounds. • • • No politics — well, except maybe forContinue reading “The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: July 27, 2019 — Politics free edition”
Open Forum: July 2019
Open Forum: July 2019 I have had a busy week as our hospice organization is going through some changes, which involve extra training and transitions, so I haven’t had time to put together my Friday post on Romans. We’ll catch up next week. Today, we’ll let you choose what you want to discuss. As withContinue reading “Open Forum: July 2019”
God’s Good Earth: The Case for an Unfallen Creation, by Jon Garvey, Chapter 9 – Bogeys in the Evolutionary Coal Cellar
God’s Good Earth: The Case for an Unfallen Creation, by Jon Garvey Chapter 9 – Bogeys in the Evolutionary Coal Cellar We will continue our review of God’s Good Earth: The Case for an Unfallen Creation, by Jon Garvey. Today is Chapter 9 – Bogeys in the Evolutionary Coal Cellar. We are now in SectionContinue reading “God’s Good Earth: The Case for an Unfallen Creation, by Jon Garvey, Chapter 9 – Bogeys in the Evolutionary Coal Cellar”
Wednesday with Michael Spencer: On Resacramentalizing Evangelicalism
Wednesday with Michael Spencer On Resacramentalizing Evangelicalism Evangelicals have an issue with sacraments. Mention the word to them and they start fidgeting in their seats and thumbing their Bibles. It’s an interesting historical story. A sacrament is something in the physical world that mediates or communicates the presence, power, promises and/or grace of God. VariousContinue reading “Wednesday with Michael Spencer: On Resacramentalizing Evangelicalism”
Fr. Freeman on the Two-Storey vs. the One-Storey Universe
Christians must live in a way and learn a manner of understanding that allows the reintegration of the world. • Fr. Stephen Freeman • • • Many of my earliest religious memories are connected with funerals. I came from a large extended family, all of whom lived in the same county. It was inevitable thatContinue reading “Fr. Freeman on the Two-Storey vs. the One-Storey Universe”
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