Christianity
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The Time of No Room (Excerpt)
As I mentioned in my previous post, here is the beginning section of Thomas Merton’s “The Time of No Room.” The rest of the essay can be found elsewhere on the internet, but…
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Marginal: My word for 2019
For the past few years, my friend Ruth has chosen “One Little Word” for each year, allowing it to inform her life as the year progresses. I’ve always admired this, and enjoyed how…
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George MacDonald: Truth in Jesus
I know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continually close, to the Spirit of Christ Himself. Hence his Christ-like union of tenderness and severity. Nowhere else outside the…
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Love Thy Body
There aren’t many books that I feel like buying and giving to everyone I know, but this one fits into that category. Written by Nancy Pearcey, author of Total Truth, Love Thy Body…
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Easter
This week, I’ve been reflecting on John Updike’s poem “Seven Stanzas at Easter.” It fits well with my other reading of Pearcey and Schaeffer lately, because it emphasizes the historicity and physicality of…
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Escape from Reason
Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting. (Francis Schaeffer) Perhaps ten years ago, a…
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Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity
Rereading Total Truth for the first time in about 10 years has been both a rich and a worrisome journey. Revisiting my review from 2008, I see that it didn’t do this astonishingly…
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Your Mind Matters
I reread this little gem by John Stott this week. Only 85 pages long, it was purchased for a philosophy class when I was in college. I remembered nothing, but it’s now one…
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Fashionable Idolatry
A few days ago, I heard a news story called “Sometimes We Feel More Comfortable Talking to a Robot.” The article describes how a robot called “BlabDroid” can inspire people to open up…
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Catching up with old friends
I’ve been reading around since my last post. Much of it is rereading. I reread A Wrinkle in Time, followed by A Wind in the Door. (They’re about to release a movie of…