June 2012
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“It is this logic that we see played out in our own lives on a daily basis. “Do...”
– Peter Rollins, “Stop Teaching the Ethics of Jesus”
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“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something,...”
– Nora Ephron
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“There is redemption and freedom that occurs when darkness is forced into the...”
– Anne Jackson, Permission to Speak Freely
On my way home from the airport, after dropping my family off, it was the mountains that reminded me that God is real. I needed that reminder. It’s hard to say goodbye. It’s hard to remember why we are here.
My heart is full and heavy, both simultaneously. My family was in Seattle with us for an entire week. As typically happens, the time passed quickly.
On my drive back, I felt...
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“The very notion of a messiah, or messianic presence, insinuates that there is...”
– Carl Raschke, The Next Reformation: Why Evangelicals Must Embrace Postmodernity
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Notes from my Philosophy II class with Dr. Carl Raschke:
Abraham, in his obedience and willingness to sacrifice Isaac, like Bonhoeffer, made a decision for faith by virtue of the absurd. This is what Kierkegaard calls a ‘religious faith’. Instead, a lot of people mistake the ethical for the life of faith.
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Translation by Luci Shaw
After resurrection, Jesus acted strange, materializing through solid wood, even though he didn’t look that different. The gashes seeped still, varnishing the tentative hand, the fingers
that need to know him new. Let me say how strange I feel, trusting this to be true—that a body can be both mortally wounded and whole enough to dodge decay,
As though, half-emptied of corporeality, halfway...
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