Temporarily shelving the abortion issue for my present points, every Christian in America should fight for free health care for all, legal citizens or not.
Every person, whether healthy or sick, rich or poor, industrious or lazy, is made in the image of God and therefore their life now is of tremendous value.
Physical life matters. God’s [...]
Entries from September 2009
September 29, 2009
Every Christian Should Fight for Free Health Care
September 22, 2009
Mining a Technicolor Minefield
More from Wright. This time a great example of the frequent flashes of technicolor writing in a mostly technical tome.
The rabbinic literature is of course a mine of information and a minefield for the unwary.
N.T. Wright, The New Testament and the People of God
September 15, 2009
The American Dream or the Great Commission Resurgence?
Fantastic sermon by Al Jackson at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Chapel this morning: here is the link.
On a similar note:
No, it isn’t for lack of money that there are 1,568 peoples with no missionaries. It’s because we have so much. The comforts of the West have made us soft and cautious and fearful and [...]
September 15, 2009
Our Story of Reality
More from Wright:
Reality as we know it is the result of a creator god bringing into being a world that is other than himself, and yet which is full of his glory. It was always the intention of this god that creation should one day be flooded with his own life, in a way for [...]
September 11, 2009
Biting Off More than I can Chew, Swallow, Digest, or Throw Up
A few hours ago I began what will probably a be a long journey through the first three volumes of N.T. Wright’s projected six-volume Christian Origins and the Question of God series. Here is a taste from volume one:
The New Testament, I suggest, must be read so as to be understood, read within appropriate contexts, [...]
September 10, 2009
Holey Pockets
The book of Acts has been kicking me in the teeth of late.
And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need.
Acts 2:44-45
Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and [...]
September 5, 2009
Mornings with Bohoeffer part 3
More on suffering:
There remains an experience of incomparable value. We have for once learnt to see the great events of world history from below, from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled – in short, from the perspective of those who suffer. The important thing is that [...]
September 4, 2009
Mornings with Bonhoeffer part 2
On suffering:
It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than in the freedom of one’s own responsibility. It is infinitely easier to suffer with others than to suffer alone. It is infinitely easier to suffer publicly and honourably than apart and ignominiously. It is infinitely easier to suffer through staking one’s [...]
September 3, 2009
Mornings with Bonhoeffer
A few quotes from my morning reading of Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer:
Nothing that we despise in the other man is entirely absent from ourselves.
The immanent righteousness of history rewards and punishes only men’s deeds, but the eternal righeousness of God tries and judges their hearts.
We need all along the line to [...]
