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Monthly Archives: July 2008
More MacDonald on Witnessing
In George MacDonald’s The Baron’s Apprenticeship, Pastor Thomas Wingfold gives Barbara advice on how to witness to her friend, Richard: “Now, Miss Wylder, don’t try to convince the young man of anything by argument. If you succeeded, it would do … Continue reading
George MacDonald on Witnessing, Atonement
I’m reading George MacDonald’s The Baron’s Apprenticeship (or There and Back, which was its original title). George MacDonald was a nineteenth century Scottish author, poet, and minister. He had a profound influence on J.R.R. Tolkein, Madeleine L’Engle, and C.S. Lewis. … Continue reading
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What’s Going On? 3
I’m watching The Dead Zone right now–the series with Anthony Michael Hall and David Ogden Stiers. At 10:00, I’ll be watching a movie with Elisabeth Shue. Shue plays a woman who goes crazy after she has her first child. Not … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Movies, Religion, Television
My Picture of God: Above our Pettiness
In How to Know God, Deepak Chopra discusses various stages of human interaction with the divine. In the first two stages, we see a reliance on God as a protector and provider. In the later stages, however, we see less … Continue reading
My Picture of God: Stages 1 and 2
In my last post, The God Mirror, I talked about Deepak Chopra’s How to Know God. For Chopra, our picture of God reflects who we are and where we are at spiritually. Here, I want to discuss my image of … Continue reading
The God Mirror
I recently read Deepak Chopra’s How to Know God. To be honest, I didn’t understand a lot of it, and there were aspects that seemed a little too New Agey for my taste. You know those philosophers who say that … Continue reading
"Natural" in Romans 1:26-27
In Another Addendum on GLBT Posts, Michael Westmoreland-White states the following: “In 1 Cor. 11:14, Paul asks rhetorically, ‘Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him. . .?’ … Continue reading
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