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Too Small a Boat
If I define history as the objective scientific recount of exact events, then history is too small a boat for matters of faith. It’s virtually impossible to know objective scientific fact (so-called). For example, suppose a videographer recorded the assassination … Continue reading
I’m back!
I’ve been on hiatus for a couple of months, but now I’m back. What I’ve been reading in the interim includes: Tony Hillerman, author of great mysteries that feature a Navajo detective; N. T. Wright, author of Simply Christian and … Continue reading
Memorial Day
We have a three-day weekend. We take a moment to remember with gratitude the sacrifice of countless men and women to give us our freedoms.
Bonhoeffer’s idea of “stupidity”
I’m continue to read Letters and Papers from Prison. I have finally the complete text of “After Ten Years.” Bonhoeffer describes stupidity, as an intentional unwillingness to see through deception, a refusal to seek the wisdom of the Lord. For … Continue reading
How honest?
Finished reading John AT Robinson’s Honest to God, the 1963 bombshell, which I didn’t read in 1963. I was a high school sophomore; I guess it wasn’t required. I didn’t read it in college, either, however. For me college was … Continue reading
Reading, reading
I am plowing through my first read of Sanctorum Communio, (DBWE 1), Bonhoeffer’s first dissertation on the church. Now at p. 250, reading only the text, not the extensive notes, which include material in the original but not published due … Continue reading
First impression
Finished a quick initial reading of Love Wins. Don’t know what all the flap is about. The book is straightforward, well documented with Scripture, and cogently argued. Why would anybody object to that? For a long time I’ve thought of … Continue reading
What’s the true cross look like?
Want to share some handouts from our Neighborhood Bible Meet UP. They have to do with the cross. Bonhoeffer’s Cost of Discipleship, chapter 4 “Discipleship and the Cross.” [I know everybody doesn’t get hung up on gender exclusive language. The … Continue reading
How to think of the cross
BEING CHRIST’S DISCIPLE – 4 The Cross, session 2 Check out Bonhoeffer’s Discipleship, chapter 4. God does not love because Jesus died for us; Jesus died for us because the Father loved us.[1] Only as we by faith admit Christ … Continue reading
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