Apr

The Atlantic Reviews Blue Like Jazz

Posted by Steve Published in Culture

You may, or may not, know that Don Miller’s book, Blue Like Jazz has been made into a movie. I thought the book was ok, for what it was. And, I know folks that found it helpful. I can’t say I was overly curious about the movie, but I was a bit curious. I ran [...]

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Apr

Around the Horn :: 4.19.12

Posted by Steve Published in Culture, _samp

‘When God Talks Back’ To the Evangelical Community An interesting story from Fresh Air on NPR previewing T.H. Luhrmann’s new book: Luhrmann has hypothesized that people going to services and prayer groups at evangelical churches have trained their minds to perceive God’s voice. In the prayer classes she attended, she observed people experiencing what she [...]

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Apr

39 Articles Sermon Series

Posted by Steve Published in Anglicanism, St. Andrew's, Theology, Thirty-Nine Articles

This Sunday we kick off a sermon series working our way through the Thirty-Nine Articles. We’ve broken the sermons down into a series of mini-series that address the Articles thematically. Of particular enjoyment will be some of the guest preachers we’ve arranged to take on a particular Article: Kendall Harmon, Peter Moore and Justyn Terry. [...]

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Apr

The Go-Nowhere Generation

Posted by Steve Published in Culture

Ran across this fascinating article in the NYT. Make sure to read it all. AMERICANS are supposed to be mobile and even pushy. Saul Bellow’s Augie March declares, “I am an American … first to knock, first admitted.” In “The Grapes of Wrath,” young Tom Joad loads up his jalopy with pork snacks and relatives, [...]

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Apr

Learning from Liberals

Posted by Steve Published in Scripture, Theology

A nice article offering “7 Lessons We Should Learn from the German Liberal Theologians and Higher Critics” – if we don’t learn from such people, we may find ourselves blundering into their errors. Dead Germans. They are the subject of a lecture I give every spring in my church history classes: a brief overview of German theologians from the [...]

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Apr

AMiA Finds a Home

Posted by Steve Published in Anglicanism

Joel Martin, over at A Living Text, has this story: Well, the AMiA has found a home, and it is the Congo. You know, the Congo, in Africa. Back in December, the Holy Spirit told Chuck Murphy to leave Africa . . . You’ll definitely want to read the rest.

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Apr

++Carey Says Christians Being Persecuted in Great Britain

Posted by Steve Published in Anglicanism, Culture, Politics

In yesterday’s edition of The Guardian George Carey, retired Archbishop of Canterbury, said that Christians are being persecuted and driven underground in Britain. His comments were part of a written submission to the European court of human rights as they consider a landmark religious freedoms case before the court. Lord Carey said Christians were excluded [...]

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Apr

Dershowitz on Zimmerman Affidavit: Irresponsible and Unethical

Posted by Steve Published in Culture, Politics

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Apr

Friday Morning Video :: Caine’s Arcade

Posted by Steve Published in Empowered Living, Just For Fun, Video

A nice short movie (10 min) about a 9 year-old boy who built a cardboard arcade in the back of his dad’s auto parts store and is about to have the best day of his life. I’m a sucker for stories like this.

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Apr