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Archive for October, 2008
A Change
Posted in Uncategorized on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Rule of Prayer
Posted in Uncategorized on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The principle thing is to stand before God with the mind in the heart, and to go on standing before Him unceasingly day and night, until the end of life.”
St Theopan the Reculse
The Irreconcilability of the Life of Faith and Consumerism
Posted in Uncategorized on October 20, 2008 | 7 Comments »
“People who rest their lives in promise do not make good consumers.”
Walter Brueggemann bases this claim on his reading of Israel’s – and by extension, the church’s – stories, which he loosely groups as stories of promise (e.g., the blessing of Abraham), deliverance (e.g. the Exodus) and sustenance (e.g., the provision of manna in the [...]
Was Jesus A-Political?
Posted in Uncategorized on October 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I was taught to believe that Jesus was an a-political figure, and that Christians, therefore, could be good Christians and still retain their right to belong to this or that political party. The logic strikes me as faulty; it would seem to me if Jesus were a-political, then his followers ought to be, too. But [...]
Christian Political Responsibility: Voting
Posted in Uncategorized on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Halden led me to N. Dan Smith’s chapter-by-chapter review of Electing not to Vote: Christian Reflections on Reasons for not Voting; the book is comprised of essays by nine contributors of various ethnic and cultural backgrounds from several Christian traditions, including Pentecostals! (One of the contributors, Paul Alexander, was a professor of mine at SAGU.) I [...]
