When I agreed to do this for Tim, I didn’t know two things: how busy this week would end up being, and how Tim makes this quality article aggregation thing look easy. It ISN’T. So please forgive the lack of daily links, and remember (as always): these are shared to stimulate thought; no endorsement or agreement implied. Now, on with the show!
I’ve noticed that for all the complaints against fundamentalism these days, we haven’t moved very far beyond it. It’s just now the fundamental foundation for many of my friends is a a kind of cultural narrative of progress.
We’ve been taught to think the world is slowly getting better, and with the right politics, organization, medicine and education we will usher in a better world. And anyone who stands in the way of that objective is vilified and written off.
I’m progressive, I want to help serve the world and my neighbor, I don’t want to have some kind of nostalgia about the past, I want to deal with the time I actually live in.
But the thing that drives me isn’t progressive politics/theology it’s reconciliation.
What To Do When Everything Crumbles
…the older men, when they see the foundation, can’t bear it. Perhaps it’s too small, nothing like David’s temple, so grand and massive. Perhaps seeing this slab of rock is too hard, too much. Perhaps it reminds them of the fall, of the family they lost, the children murdered in the streets, the burning city of God. Whatever it is, they mourn.
And the young people, the ones who’ve never known anything but captivity, they celebrate.
And the sounds of mourning and celebration grow and mingle and rise, carried on the wind to places far away.
When Two Lesbians Walk Into a Church Seeking Trouble
Do you realize that Jesus is not shocked by the shocking things people do? Jesus knew Zacchaeus had robbed people blind and profited off much unethical behavior, yet Jesus was not shocked. He did not offer Zach correction, but relationship: “Come down, Zacchaeus. I’m staying at your house tonight.” (See Luke 19:5.) That shocked everyone! Yet relationship changed Zacchaeus.
I’ve noticed that for all the complaints against fundamentalism these days, we haven’t moved very far beyond it. It’s just now the fundamental foundation for many of my friends is a a kind of cultural narrative of progress.
We’ve been taught to think the world is slowly getting better, and with the right politics, organization, medicine and education we will usher in a better world. And anyone who stands in the way of that objective is vilified and written off.
I’m progressive, I want to help serve the world and my neighbor, I don’t want to have some kind of nostalgia about the past, I want to deal with the time I actually live in.
But the thing that drives me isn’t progressive politics/theology it’s reconciliation.
What To Do When Everything Crumbles
…the older men, when they see the foundation, can’t bear it. Perhaps it’s too small, nothing like David’s temple, so grand and massive. Perhaps seeing this slab of rock is too hard, too much. Perhaps it reminds them of the fall, of the family they lost, the children murdered in the streets, the burning city of God. Whatever it is, they mourn.
And the young people, the ones who’ve never known anything but captivity, they celebrate.
And the sounds of mourning and celebration grow and mingle and rise, carried on the wind to places far away.
9 Things We Should Get Rid of to Help Our Kids
Because reality is, life doesn’t give us everything we want. We don’t always get the best jobs or a job at all. We don’t always have someone rescue us when we have a bad day or replace our boss just because we don’t like them. We can’t always have what we want when we want it. We aren’t always rewarded in life.
Here are 9 things we can get rid of to begin eliminating entitlement in our children…
A “Startlingly Simple Theory” About the Missing Airliner is Sweeping the Internet. It’s Wrong.
To make a good theory, Einstein is said to have asserted, “everything should be kept as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Unfortunately, Christopher Goodfellow’s wildly popular theory errs on the side of too much elegance.
You Should Care Big Time About the Big Bang News
It’s fine—and vital—to do science that changes lives. But it’s great to also do science that just gets you drunk on the idea that you’re doing it at all, that refracts the universe in a different way, that shows you yourself from the other side of the mirror. You are precisely the same person you were before you had that perspective—and you’re entirely different too.
The throwback impact of Manu Ginobili
With Ginobili serving as their grizzled captain — think Russell Crowe in “Gladiator,” only with basketballs instead of short swords — the so-called Foreign Legion has been by far the best bench corps in the league, nearly doubling No. 2 Dallas in overall production and efficiency.