It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, so this is going to be long. There’s lots of good stuff here, though, on a number of topics. An Outlaw’s Theology I lose my voice! I lose it because my witness and story are not heard. All my life, it is my voice that [...]
Archive for the ‘things I’ve been reading’ Category
Things I’ve been reading, early November edition
November 4, 2011
With Open Hands
October 6, 2011
Henri Nouwen, from Compassion, as excerpted in The Only Necessary Thing, pp 92-93. In a society that seems to be filled with urgencies and emergencies, prayer appears to be an unnatural form of behavior. Without fully realizing it, we have accepted the idea that “doing things” is more important than prayer and have come to [...]
Things I’ve been reading
September 27, 2011
A Point of View: Can religion tell us more than science? Myths aren’t relics of childish thinking that humanity leaves behind as it marches towards a more grown-up view of things. They’re stories that tell us something about ourselves that can’t be captured in scientific theories. Just as you don’t have to believe that a [...]
Things I’ve been reading
September 15, 2011
Misusing deconstruction: on belief and the emergent church Popular use notwithstanding, I do think that emergent church folk are particularly and especially culpable for their use and misuse of the word theoretically and theologically in large part because of their affinity toward postmodern philosophy and their use of key thinkers like Derrida. This makes things [...]
Some things I’ve been reading
September 7, 2011
I lieu of sharing my own thoughts, here are some other people’s writings that have impacted me lately. Awkward from Carl McColman. Jesus Walking On The Water: A Sermon Sarcastic and Serious from Nadia Bolz-Weber Reading Revolution: 14 Marvelous Modern Libraries Just Another Woman at Michfest from Alice Kalafarski A Prayer for Humility by William [...]