Category: Scripture
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The Mind Puzzles, The Feelings Feel, The Heart Wants
Consider the perpetual arguments, the ones that have been going on long enough that everyone should have figured out the debate is not actually progressing in either of the two antagonistic directions. Here is the short list, you could add your versions of these: By now you are ready to say “nominalism vs. realism, in…
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Psalm 131: Willing To Listen
Thomas Merton claims that silence is our admission that we have broken communication with God and are now willing to listen. From today’s lectionary (BCP) Psalm 131 I Have Calmed and Quieted My Soul A Song of Ascents. Of David. 131:1 O Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too…
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Roman 8.3-7
The experience of victory in the NT hinges on something like “attention to the matters of the Spirit”.
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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…