Note from CM: Thanks to Richard Beck for giving permission to re-post his thoughts about what the Christian faith says about evil. This is actually part two of a two-part post at his blog, Experimental Theology, and if you want to read more about the first two assertions, follow the link in this post toContinue reading “Monday with Richard Beck: Christian Assertions about Evil”
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Sunday with Christian Wiman: Anxieties that have become useful to us
There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that never quite finds its true force or direction, or as fuel for ambition, or as a kind of reflexive secular religion that, paradoxically, unites us with others in a shared sense of completeContinue reading “Sunday with Christian Wiman: Anxieties that have become useful to us”
The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: October 13, 2018
The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: October 13, 2018 Today’s Brunch is sprinkled with Peanuts. Just thought you ought to know. Nostalgic autumn photos from Vermont in the 1970s (by yours truly)… Best quote I read this week… Doubt is only a problem if certainty is the expectation. • Austin Fischer Recommended viewing… If youContinue reading “The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: October 13, 2018”
When being Right is Wrong
I like to be right. I like to debate. Sometimes I forget there are real people on the other side of the discussion, or listening in on the conversation. I remember way back in my university days an acquaintance expressed concern about the nuclear arms race. Sensing a chance for some fun, I immediately arguedContinue reading “When being Right is Wrong”
Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship By John Polkinghorne (Part 3c) – Lessons from History
Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship By John Polkinghorne (Part 3c) — Lessons from History We are reviewing the book, “Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship” by John Polkinghorne. Today we will look at the third part of Chapter 3- Lessons from History. John continues his comparative study of science and Christian theologyContinue reading “Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship By John Polkinghorne (Part 3c) – Lessons from History”
Another Look: Just Over the Horizon (with bubblegum)
Another moment I have always remembered was walking out on deck one night after supper and finding a young red-haired officer peering into the dark through binoculars. He told me he was scanning the horizon for signs of other ships, and the way to do that, he explained, was to look not at the horizonContinue reading “Another Look: Just Over the Horizon (with bubblegum)”
Rowan Williams on the Eucharist (2)
Rowan Williams on the Eucharist (2) Today we continue our series of reflections on Rowan Williams’s book, Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer, continuing with the third big theme of the practice of being Christian — the sacrament celebrating how God welcomes us to his table: the Eucharist. The resurrected Jesus is doing what heContinue reading “Rowan Williams on the Eucharist (2)”
Monday Miscellany
Monday Miscellany Yesterday’s lectionary Gospel reading was Mark 10:2-16, a passage I understand a lot of pastors dread preaching. It is a “divorce” passage where Jesus speaks directly to the subject. I like what our pastor said. He stressed God’s design for couples to marry and live together in love for a lifetime. And thenContinue reading “Monday Miscellany”
Sunday with Christian Wiman: No half-remembered country
Sunday with Christian Wiman No half-remembered country In fact, there is no way to “return to the faith of your childhood,” not really, not unless you’ve just woken from a decades-long and absolutely literal coma. Faith is not some half-remembered country into which you come like a long-exiled king, dispensing the old wisdom, casting outContinue reading “Sunday with Christian Wiman: No half-remembered country”
The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: October 6, 2018
The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: October 6, 2018 Settling into Fall… There is a beauty to autumnal darkness — the softness of the night sounds and the cool air, the way shadow pools in even sparse thickets of urban trees, lending them the gravitas of deep woods. But more than that, there is the respiteContinue reading “The IM Saturday Monks Brunch: October 6, 2018”
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