Relating to Arts & Culture
Beverly Daniel Tatum engages in a conversation that myself and a good friend of mine, Russ Whitfield, have begun ourselves. Ethnically, I am Anglo-Saxon; my friend, who is bi-racial, is ethnically both Anglo-Saxon and African-American. Over the next weeks we'll be reading this book together, discussing it, and reflecting on it online here starting today, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, ...
One afternoon a group of fellow Christians of a variety of Protestant denominations were sitting together having a meal in a break room when the subject of Harry Potter bubbled to the surface of a cauldron of conversation in which I was participating. Crystal and I had been talking about the tremendous imaginative elements in the book, when she asked ...
A WTS alumnus, Mark Robinson, has made a nice lecture on John Coltrane and the relation of constraint and contingency as it relates to jazz and to human freedom. If you're new to jazz you'll find Mark lectures in a way that will give you not only introduction to jazz but an appreciation for it. The following is the lecture ...
9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in ...
[1][1] Joseph Conrad. Under Western Eyes. Everyman's Library. (London: Random Century Group, 1991), ...
Stuart Clem's blogSculpting in Time: Tarkovsky The Great Russian Filmaker Discusses His Art“The alloted function of art is not, as often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to ...
Suddenly the lights of the Universe seemed to be turned down. As if some demon had rubbed the heaven's face with a dirty sponge, the splendour in which they had loved for so long blenched to a pallid, cheerless and pitiable grey. ... Things do not always happen as man would expect. The moment of his arrival in an unknown ...
patron Awe fell upon him: there were no mornings here, no evenings, and no night -- nothing but the changeless noon which had filled for centuries beyond history so many millions of cubic miles. 1[1] C. S. Lewis. Out of the Silent Planet. (NewYork: Scribner 2003), ...
I was overwhelmed last weekend at the quite sensational(ized) AP news story of J. K. Rowling's statement that she "always thought of Dumbledore as gay." As one who has loved reading the Harry Potter books, I wasn't sure what to make of it. When I read the CNN version of the story the line that seemed to have ...
per caritatem"Is the Future Catholic?"the church and postmodern culture: conversation"Is the Future ...
Relearning the analytic through the creativeSinging the Apostles' Creed to a Two Year OldI believe in God the Father __________Big Red BarnAn Adult Applicationehad, shinaim, shalosh, arbah, hamesh, shesh...An Ecclesiastical ...
Participation and TransformationLord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, have mercy upon ...
[Humanity] had a major liberty which consists in a total love conformity of the will to God. This was man's glory, as it was his shame, for he was the broken rung in the ladder of created being.... His work had to be redeemed by being incorporated into the Humanity of the Incarnate Godhead. The Incarnation is a new glory ...
Helen Samhan at Groiler's Multimedia Encyclopedia via the Arab American Institute writes:
The majority of Arab Americans descend from the first wave of mostly Christian immigrants. Sharing the faith tradition of the majority of Americans facilitated their acculturation into American society, as did high intermarriage rates with other Christian ethnic groups.1
When my wife and I lived in Moscow, there were huge ...
In my pilgrimage presently the Lord has my heart grieving over the fracturedness of the Church of Christ and the splinteredness of the fracturedness. When Dante enters the intellectual Heaven of the Sun, where the great doctors of the Church have discourse, he then concludes that their perspectives of the truth, their partial truths have resolved into the One Truth. ...
Suffering and Grief
pain (27x)
death (18x)
dead (4x)
murder (2x)
hell (1x)
non sequitorsJustinian's Flea, irreducibly complex 9Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. (2 Corinthians 1:9, ...
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Letters of friendship (cf. 2 Cor 1:16; 5:3; Phil 1:7–8)
Family letters
Letters of praise and blame (1 Cor 11; Rev 2–3)
Exhortatory or paraenetic letters (1 Thess 1-5; the Pastorals)
Letters of mediation or recommendation (Phil 2:19-30, Philemon)
Juridical or forensic letters (1 Cor 9:3-12; 2 Cor 1:8-2:13)
Private or documentary letters
Official letters
Literary ...
For the human heart trusts goods at hand but mistrusts those not at hand, as the saying goes: “Having gold makes men bold; being poor makes them sour.”?? But trust in wealth cannot rule in the heart at the same time with faith and love. And this he calls here “to forget the Lord God.” For you do not ...
There is an issue in the text here that seems to be glossed over in many translations. Deuteronomy 4:32-40 specifically (and larger parts of the OT generally) are making polemic against social and theological norms that are aberrant. This seems evident in the Hebrew. In Deuteronomy 4:32 most translations capitalize the word God, ...
