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Augustine, Original Sin, and a Lesson on Friendship
Read more: Augustine, Original Sin, and a Lesson on FriendshipI love thinking about friendship. Even more, I love having friends. In my most recent reading of Augustine’s Confessions, I couldn’t help but notice the respectable bishop seemed to share some of my feelings of longing and affection when it comes to possessing and enjoying the good of friendship. Though Augustine never wrote a treatise…
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The Good, The Bad, and the Marginalized
Read more: The Good, The Bad, and the MarginalizedWe don’t live in a Western film. You know, the one where the good guys wear white and outshoot the dastardly villains in black? That kind of world in which exist only the good, the bad, and the ugly, is not our world. It would certainly be easier if the true villains of our world’s…
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Reckless Love: A Response to John Piper
Read more: Reckless Love: A Response to John PiperRecently a new phenomenon has hit the Christian scene becoming a staple of most radio stations and many Sunday morning worship services, Reckless Love. No, not the Finnish Guns and Roses cover band, the worship song by Cory Asbury. This song, despite its insanely huge popularity, has taken some criticism from many high profile Christian…
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Why Thomistic Dualism
Read more: Why Thomistic DualismI recently had the opportunity to be part of a reading group that read a cross-disciplinary work. This work intended to integrate psychology, philosophy, and theology under theological anthropology. I noticed that this work like many other works of this kind not only misrepresented dualism but confused ontology with function. In the area of philosophy…
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“Try Walkin’ Like Jesus”: A Critique of Christian Political Inaction on Gun Violence from A Perfect Circle
Read more: “Try Walkin’ Like Jesus”: A Critique of Christian Political Inaction on Gun Violence from A Perfect CircleI began writing this blog post over week ago, and I had no idea that it would be appearing after yet another school shooting. Once again, we hear the refrain of Christian political inaction: “Thoughts and Prayers.” The repetition of it all lulls us back to sleep. “This is America.” And in America, complacency is…
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My Confession as a Bad Juggler
Read more: My Confession as a Bad JugglerTina Fey once wrote that the worst question you can ask a mother has nothing to do about their age or their weight. (I respectfully disagree. As a younger, more clueless man, I once asked a woman when the baby was due. She slapped my arm and informed me her baby was already three-months old….
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Three Biblical Steps to Having a Fruitful Discussion
Read more: Three Biblical Steps to Having a Fruitful DiscussionIn an age of increasing tension we, as a people, seem to have lost the art of dialoguing with one another in a fruitful manner. Neither side is able to hear the others and every discussion seems to reach an impasse that is insurmountable. After reading various online comment sections such as YouTube, Fox News,…
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How I learned to honor my father and mother
Read more: How I learned to honor my father and motherTo honor one’s father and mother both is one of the Ten Commandments and also squares with the universal moral sense that C.S. Lewis called “the Tao” in his Abolition of Man lectures. It is a tenet of Christian morality that many people obey before they explicitly learn it. Listening to my mother eulogize her adopted father…
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Nestorius B.I.G.
Read more: Nestorius B.I.G.I’ve recently watched a documentary show and some movies about the rise (and in some cases, the demise) of famous late 20th century CE hip-hop artists. Conflicts between American East-coast and West-coast artists and their supporters contributed in many ways to the popularity, but also to the controversy and eventual ruin of some rappers. For…
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Reflections on Beth Moore’s “A Letter to My Brothers”
Read more: Reflections on Beth Moore’s “A Letter to My Brothers”This past week, Beth Moore wrote a heartfelt and amazing blog post called, “A Letter to My Brothers”, articulating the hardships of being a prominent women leader in the conservative evangelical community. As I read it, I was grateful that she had the courage to write honestly about her experiences as a woman in ministry,…