Archive | October, 2012
Contemplation

From connection to contemplation…

Deep thought needs a champion!  In the digital age, efforts to promote thinking are critical and deserve high priority.  How do we balance information gathering pursuits— web surfing, social media, email, text messages—with more contemplative information processing and

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Gravedigger

The Last Christian on Earth (2): The Sandman Effect**

It’s quite likely that more people have been shamed out of their faith than have been argued out of it.  But when most Christians think of defending the faith, they think of making arguments.  The everyday challenges from

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D F Wallace

A secular sermon on the folly of worshiping false gods…

Commencement speakers at secular colleges don’t usually deliver sermons.  But sometimes they do, even though they call them “commencement addresses” and they don’t cite scripture.  What these rare individuals do—along with a few poets, musicians, novelists, film makers

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Last Christian

The Last Christian on Earth (1): Operation Gravedigger

“The Christian faith contributed decisively to the rise of the modern world, but it has been undermined decisively by the modern world it helped to create. The Christian faith has become its own gravedigger.”

 

In light of this terse

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Blog

To blog or not to blog—that’s not the question!

“How often to blog?”  Now, that’s the question.

 

Since beginning The Humanitas Forum blog in early July, I’ve kept a good pace, usually posting five time a week.   That is, until the last couple weeks.  With

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Work

The purpose of work…

Leisure, not work, is what life is all about.  We work for the weekend and the next vacation.  And long-range, a comfortable retirement is the reason for work.  Work is not done as an end in itself.

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Eberly

Nonjudgmentalism—a morality without legs…

 

The primary spiritual illness afflicting the culture is the loss of an active belief in absolute truth that transcends the immanent realm or present temporal world. Transcendence, as it will be used here, refers to belief in absolute truth

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Newbigin

Can the West be converted?

Can the West be converted?  This question was asked in 1985 by Lesslie Newbigin, a retired missionary who had spent almost forty years in India.  Although many would not consider Newbigin an Evangelical, his insights into the challenges

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Center Church

Rethinking gospel ministry for a secular age…

How do you build a thriving church in one of the most secular metropolitan centers of the world, New York City?  Does it require programs and techniques that appeal to postmodern young adults?  Does it require a certain

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C. S. Lewis

There are no ordinary people…

[T]he cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning. A cleft has opened in the pitiless walls of the world, and we are invited to follow our great Captain inside. The following Him is, of course, the

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