January 2012
26 posts
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“A good sermon changes even known truth into profound realization.”
– Marilynne Robinson
“The opposite of kitsch is not sophistication but innocence.”
– Kitsch and the Modern Predicament by Roger Scruton, City Journal Winter 1999 (via poeticfaith)
“Yet nowadays the planet is moving too fast for even a Rushdie or DeLillo to keep...”
– A long sentence is worth the read
“As Weber understood in the end, the bureaucratization of knowledge and the...”
– Wilfred McClay, What Do Experts Know? > National Affairs
“In seminary Mister Rogers studied systematic theology with Dr. William S. Orr....”
– Won’t You Be My Neighbor? - Christianity Today
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December 2011
24 posts
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“Nothing is more educative for man in his totality than the liturgy. The Bible is...”
– Cardinal Yves Congar, O.P., 1963 (quoted by Geoffrey Hull in The Banished Heart, 2010)
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“Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God’s...”
– Henri J. M. Nouwen (via mikegarycole)
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“Because of piety’s penchant for taking itself too seriously, theology does well...”
– Tom Oden (via Philip Tallon on Twitter)
“I believe that we ought so to love and trust God in our lives, and in all the...”
– Bonhoeffer, LPP (via ayjay)
“God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in...”
– go read the whole excerpt from one of Bonhoeffer’s prison letters over at Nijay Gupta’s blog (via wesleyhill)
“The grace of God don’t rest easy on a man. It can blind him as easy as...”
– Cormac McCarthy, “Outer Dark” (via my wife, of course)
“For too long, we’ve pretended that the old problem of causality can be cured by...”
– Jonah Lehrer: Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us
An editor of Nature magazine posted a link to this article with a comment, “But science is the only way to untangle the mystery.” Oddly defensive and almost certainly mistaken. AKA: “Science! It’s not just a...
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“The problem with this assumption, however, is that causes are a strange kind of...”
– Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us | Magazine
“But skepticism is a universal solvent, and once applied, it does not stop just...”
– Christopher Hitchens Has Died, Doug Wilson Reflects | Christianity Today
“Mr. Plantinga readily admits that he has no proof that God exists. But he also...”
– New York Times on Alvin Plantinga, via gttd
“Martin Luther had the basic insight that moralism is the default mode of the...”
– Tim Keller, The Advent of Humility
“One kind word can warm three winter months.”
– Japanese proverb (via notyourgramma) 