UPDATE: Somehow a few people discovered this six-month old post and made a few comments. I was going to just respond in the comment section, but I thought I would respond in the post, because this comes at a time when I’m re-thinking the whole relevance idea.
It’s interesting they’ve made these comments because I just […]
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This morning the New York Times reported on the Pew Forum On Religion And Public Life’s latest survey entitled, “US Religious Landscape Survey.” It is a 143 page document outlining the seismic religious shift the American culture is undergoing. And what does it find? It uncovers what we’ve sort of known all along but […]
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I was given permission to post an editorial piece written by Dr. Carl Ruby, Vice President of Student Life, that appeared in the on-campus newspaper, Cedars. As I wrote earlier in an update to my original post, a number of events coagulated last week to cause Dr. Ruby to (momentarily) pull the plug on a […]
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Friday afternoon I had a lovely lunch of Cashews and Chicken at a local Chinese Restaurant with my Systematic Theology professor, Dr. Wittmer. He is as funny as he is scholarly (brownie points?) and I thoroughly enjoyed my second lunch with this new professor friend. (BTW, he’s written an excellent book called Heaven Is A […]
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Throughout the history of the Church, there has been a constant renegotiation of the teachings of Scripture and understanding of God’s Reality. From Peter’s reunderstanding of what was considered clean and unclean in the Book of Acts to Martin Luther’s revelation of salvation by faith alone to contemporary notions of women ecclesial roles, Truth has […]
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The Series
1: Derrida and Textual Interpretation
2: Lyotard, Metanarratives, and The Christian Story
3: Foucault, Power and Knowledge, “The Golden Compass,” and Church Inc.
At the beginning of the academic school year in September I began a series of posts looking at the interplay of Christian spirituality and postmodernity using the book Who’s Afraid of […]
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While I am away on my spiritual retreat, I thought I would re-post something I posted over 5 months ago this summer. Consider it your end-of-the-year shot in the ass to radically pursue the Troublemaker Jesus. In the new year may you reUnderstand, reDiscover and reFollow anew the alternative Way of Jesus.
John Frye […]
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