January 2010
26 posts
“A common, deadly commandment that prevails inside & outside the church is,...”
– Peter Scazzero, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
“By virtue of entering the Kingdom of God, we Christians make the astounding...”
– Scot McKnight, The Jesus Creed
Playing Tee Ball with Richard Dawkins
This morning I was reading a repost on a blog of an article famed athiest Richard Dawkins wrote about Pat Roberton’s comments & Haiti.
The following is from Unreasonable Faith:
Richard Dawkins has a post on the On Faith blog of the Washington Post talking about Haiti and the Hypocrisy of Christian Theology:
Milder-mannered faith-heads are falling over themselves to disown Pat...
“For an existing individual, therefore, there is no objective truth “out...”
– Soren Kierkegaard, Passion & Paradox
sustained by hope (at least today)
“God’s love for sinners is the bridge over which Jesus’ eschatological message leads to a new establishing of law among humans. In their trust in God’s future, humans can preserve for themselves the fellowship with God they have received as a gift, but only if they forgive others as they themselves have been forgiven. Through the message of Jesus, God gives to humans the...
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“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us....”
– theWarofArt
Groaning for Something
This past week I spent some time reading Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, where Peter Scazzero unveils a vision for such (emotionally healthy) spirituality—a balanced combination of contemplative spirituality and emotional health (p40).
In the chapter before he unveils his idea, Pete writes about “The Top Ten Symptoms of Emotionally Unhealthy spirituality.” They were very poignant and a few of...
“Jesus in his solidarity with the marginal ones is moved to compassion....”
– WalterBrueggmann
“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more...”
– Francis of Assisi
“It is so easy to compartmentalize God to “Christian activities”...”
– PeteScazzero
“Life is a search that is dynamic and random, not processive and progressive....”
– KennonCallahan
To Love and Lose
I should take care of you, even when I’m down, even when I’m lonely, even when you’re not around.
I should take care of you, even when I’m down, even when I’m lonely, even when you’re not around.
And I should take care of you, even if you don’t ask me to.
-Zach Williams, Take Care
This semester, my last semester at George Fox, I’m blessed to...
“The goals of American Christianity are often a nice marriage, children who...”
– FrancisChan
Stretching Life's Limits
I have a great idea. It hit me as I was riding down a street close to my work and saw one of those annoying, permanently posted speed limit feedback signs. I took it as a personal challenge to try and make it blink faster as I my speed increased.
Then I remembered an article a few years back where a state wanted to start giving tickets based on these radar-equipped signs. Just like the camera...
“Rarely does majority rule produce something of beauty.”
– Bono
Resolutions 2010
In 2010, I resolve to perpetuate the following myths:
1. The Biggest Loser actually happens and is not a photoshop production.
2. In-N-Out Burger IS coming to Texas.
3. Bamboo in Pier 1 is made from wood.
4. The world isn’t flat, but America is.
5. No one has ever found a dinosaur. Those bones are a worldwide conspiracy.
6. Twitter will soon be the replacement for landline phones and...