I want to pick back up the subject from yesterday. And I want to do it in a very specific way. We can trace a bunch of the problems within the denomination or you could say within the 1st world western church back to the 1960’s. Historically they go back farther, but that . . . → Read More: Rock-a-bye baby: Some Preliminary Thoughts – Post #2
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Benedict XVI, a German, is on a trip to Germany. One of his stops is in Erfurt at the monastery that trained and sheltered Luther. Here is the link to the full text of his comments. The full comments are short, but this is a clip. Benedict has clearly been formed in . . . → Read More: A German Pope at the Erfurt Agustinian Monastery Here are two items that caught my attention. This link uses the Sherwood Baptist movie franchise as a jumping off point. If you’ve seen Fireproof, Flywheel or Facing the Giants you have the idea. Lots of pointy headed types (like me) might find the story-lines trite, but what I would say is that they’ve gotten . . . → Read More: Can you have a culture without the cult? First, I’ve been a slacker at this site. Confession is good for you. Partly because I just didn’t like what I was writing. Too polemical and not devotional enough. Too intellectual and missing some of the emotional range. We never had that level of traffic here, but I also really didn’t . . . → Read More: Summer Theological Project This link is one of my personal axes. Melville in Moby Dick writes… What could be more full of meaning?- for the pulpit is ever this earth’s foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is the storm of God’s quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must . . . → Read More: What good is theology anyway? A Pastor-Theologian Rant Scott McKnight continues to follow “The New Calvinism” backed up by a Barna group survey. I love this fight, because I think it is an example of things we divide over, but the Biblical view is don’t. Here is the short-hand. If you have ever been part of Protestantism not of the Lutheran variety you . . . → Read More: Calvinist/Arminian, Orthodox/Pietist, Paul meet James Maybe a little intellectual, but good philosophy. Although I think it was said shorter in a couple of places like: Luke 12:23-25 (“who can add a single hour to his span of life?) or Philippians 1:21-23 or Luke 17:33 or Matt 6:11 (daily bread) or Exod 16:18-20 (the manna only lasts one day) or a . . . → Read More: No Ownership of the Future  Comments are closed  Culture, Revelation  daily bread, natural revelation, philosophy, reason, revelation, theology That was of course Marshall McLuhan bemoaning the vast wasteland of TV. The more serious point is that particular mediums (TV, books, radio, talking, letters) are not just tubes to deliver something, but they mold or form the message itself. Books are solitary, serious and heavy. TV is fast and visual. i.e. . . . → Read More: The medium is the message Comments are closed Culture, Word Ben Myers, blogging, confession and absolution, life together, Repentance, theology |
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