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Material Boy: On Artifacts, Discernment, and Elites
BY: David John Seel, Jr.
Andy Crouch’s Culture Making is an important book written by an insightful writer. It warrants wide discussion. It is also strangely troubling.
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Neo-pagan sexuality
BY: Denis Haack |
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In The Matrix Reloaded, the Wachowski’s provide us a glimpse of Zion, the last refuge of the human race in the war with the machines. The temple/sex scene is crucial because it is not only in the heart of Zion, it has religious meaning as a final assembly to prepare for the last desperate battle for survival.
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Rap Artists’ Use of Women
BY: Luke Bobo |
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“Oh Dad, you are always preaching. You’re old fashioned and reading too much into these videos!” My overlooked point was that these rap music videos are not neutral. They communicate cogently clear and subtle messages. Namely, many of the rap music videos tend to objectify or de-humanize women.
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Callings: Twenty Centuries of Christian Wisdom on Vocation (William C. Placher, 2005)
BY: Denis Haack |
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Callings is a rich resource, especially for those of us who do not have easy access to a large university library. Here in one volume is Justin Martyr, Athanasius, and Augustine; Bernard of Clairvaux, Aquinas, and Thomas á Kempis; Martin Luther, John Calvin, and William Perkins; Sren Kierkegaard, Dorothy Sayers, Karl Barth, and so many more.
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Babylon Series: Part 14 Responding to shifting sand
BY: Denis Haack |
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Christians assume that we can keep using the same arguments to convince each generation of the truth of Christianity. But that isn’t true. If we respond to new questions with old arguments, we make Christianity appear irrelevant.
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09.01 - 09.03
Critique #3-2008 in the mail
Toad Hall
Rochester, MN
09.05 - 09.15
Critique #4-2008 being drafted & edited
Toad Hall
Rochester, MN
09.07 - 09.22
Writing retreat & vacation
a friend's condo
Winter Park, CO
09.08 - 09.15
Notes from Toad Hall #3-2008 to the printer
Toad Hall
Rochester, MN
10.02 - 10.06
Seminary class & library research
Covenant Theological Seminary
St Louis, MO
10.17 - 10.18
Margie speaks
Kirk of the Hills women's retreat
St Louis, MO
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My spiritual mentor was fond of describing our world--and ourselves--as 'glorious ruins.' There is great wonder, deep truth, and breath taking beauty, but always in a broken setting of injustice, spin, and disappointment. Exploring what this means, and what a faithful spiritual pilgrimage looks like in this fallen world is what we are interested in here.
If you have similar yearnings and questions, we hope you'll find the material we post here stimulating for your own spiritual pilgrimage.
Denis (for Margie, too)
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