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• Theology for the community

  
  P e r ? C r u c e m ? a d ? L u c e m — Authority: 123
  The quote from David Lyall to which I drew attention in my previous post, What is practical theology? , and the ensuing discussion, reminded me of a section from John de Gruchy’s brilliant little book Theology and Ministry in Context and Crisis: A South African Perspective , wherein de Gruchy writes: In Germany ...
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• Celebrating Lesslie Newbigin’s 100th Birthday! [Vol. 2, #48]

  
  The Englewood Review of Books — Authority: 134
  [ Editors note: This week saw the 100th anniversary of the birth of missiologist and theologian Lesslie Newbigin.  Our friend, Andy Rowell has written a wonderfully engaging tribute on his blog , and gave us permission to reprint it here... Thanks, Andy! ] Ten Things You Probably Did Not Know about Lesslie ...
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• I’ve Done It. I’ve Reclaimed Christmas.

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 666
  I refuse to write a blog about how overwhelmed I am by the holiday season. I’m not going to wax eloquent about how the season I loved most as a child has become the source of excruciating stress. I’ll not…
  2 weeks ago

• You are accepted.

  
  The Eagle & Child — Authority: 118
  The word of the day is “Hunkered”, as I have been hunkered down in a private study room in the library for most of the day.  I’m working on a paper for Christian Ethics. Actually, it’s a letter written to my church tradition (which happens to be a a mutt) as Dietrich Bonhoeffer , drawing exclusively from his ...
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• Dare to Be a Sinner, Dare not to Stand Alone..

  
  The Reformed Reader — Authority: 125
   This is exceedingly brilliant, amazing; it is sadly and joyfully true: “The most experienced psychologist or observer of human nature knows infinitely less of the human heart than the simplest Christian who lives beneath the Cross of Jesus.  The greatest psychological insight, ability, and experience cannot ...
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• Advent II: On the pseudonymous activity of God

  
  P e r ? C r u c e m ? a d ? L u c e m — Authority: 123
  In a fascinating collection of personal papers and essays on public theology penned against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, and titled The Pseudonyms of God , Robert McAfee Brown invites us to imagine finding ourselves in a place where we are waiting for some tremendous manifestation of God’s activity. He ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bonhoeffer on Advent: Judgment and Grace

  
  Better Living: Thoughts from Mark Daniels — Authority: 428
  Advent begins for Christians throughout the world tomorrow. Advent is a word that means coming . The four-week season of Advent comes before Christmas and remembers both when God came to earth in Jesus and how the risen Jesus will one day come back to earth for the final judgment upon humankind and to fully, ...
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• Dietrich Bonhoeffer – select quotes

  
  Kevin Stilley Dot Com — Authority: 143
  The righteous man is the one who lives for the next generation. To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he ...
  3 weeks ago

• Front-loaded guarantees

  
  the 48 files — Authority: 114
  "The Sanhedrin condemns Jesus for claiming that He was able to destroy the temple and rebuild it [...] They want a god of guarantees, whose entire reason for being is to ensure that their temple will stand and keep standing, no matter what . Like all pagans, they want a god who ensures the persistence of the past, ...
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• The 360 degree turnaround

  
  the 48 files — Authority: 114
  Listening to: Mozart: Piano Trios 1. The turn away from people to Christ "Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes and even life itself, cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:26) [...] Jesus call itself already breaks the ties with the naturally given ...
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• Mishbarim: Dismantling Your Life

  
  Search the Sea — Authority: 120
  Like most middle class Americans my age, I have invested most of my life in building. School, marriage, family, career, home. It all went pretty well for awhile. I was a reasonably generous person ~ nothing outrageous, no Mother-Theresa like complexes for me ~ but certainly I gave of my energy and my time and my money ...
  4 weeks ago

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