Author: Tim
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C.S. Lewis: “…my desire for Paradise…”
..[W]e remain conscious of a desire which no natural happiness will satisfy. But is there any reason to suppose that reality offers any satisfaction to it? ‘Nor does the being hungry prove that we have bread.’ But I think it may be urged that this misses the point. A man’s physical hunger does not prove…
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Doug Wilson: Bland Leading the Bland
Bland Leading the Bland “The churches today are effeminate because effeminate men with wireless mikes and cardigan sweaters stroll around a platform chatting with the congregants in a nonthreatening and relational way. The churches are leaderless because we are nervous about prophetic preaching, and settle instead for bland and balanced leadership teams. The churches have…
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C.S. Lewis on the empty universe
‘At the outset the universe appears packed with will, intelligence, life and positive qualities. . . . [Yet] [t]he advance of knowledge gradually empties this rich and genial universe: first of its gods, then of its colours, smells, sounds and tastes, finally of solidity itself as solidity was imagined. . . . The same method…
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You’ll slide off, either up or down.
Supernaturalism: Nothing is just itself, it is part of something else. Naturalism: Nothing is itself, it is made up of something else.
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Pomegranates in the Tabernacle
The little carved pomegranates in the desert tabernacle, described carefully by God in Exodus, give us a liberating theory of “Christian” art. The little fake fruit are there, apparently, because it’s a dry and spare land and, well, they are fruit. And they’re pretty. We are never taught that they “stand for” something else more…
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Nouwen: The Discipline of Gratitude
Gratitude … goes beyond the “mine” and “thine” and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude…
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Aslan: The Doctrine and Practice of Revelation
“‘And the signs which you have learned here will not look at all as you expect them to look, when you meet them there. That is why it is so important to know them by heart and pay no attention to appearances. Remember the signs and believe the signs. Nothing else matters . . .’”
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Douglas Wilson, on Eucharist: “You belong here. A place at this Table was purchased for you through the blood of Jesus Christ. He invites you to come and eat, come and drink. Come. We insist.”
BLOG and MABLOG It is our custom, one that we believe to be scriptural, to practice insistent communion. That is, if you are here, and if you are baptized in the triune Name, then you must come. We insist. The Spirit and the Church together say come. We are not seeking to protect the Table…
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Our genes are selfish, but we can decide whether to evolve or not
The Chronicle: 11/17/2006: The Social Responsibility in Teaching Sociobiology The logic in this discussion is so bad as to be maddening. If the gene is selfish, and there is no ethic other than what “emerges” from our biological selves, how can anybody else tell me what I OUGHT to do? Why should I not kill…