Koinonia. Defending DOMA. The Lust for Certainty. The Gospel Coalition Blog. "You may run from sorrow, as we have. Sorrow will find you. " — August Nicholson in The Village My wife and I (Ted) were in the mood for a '90s movie, so we rented M. Night Shayamalan's The Village, which actually came out in 2004 but is still a '90s movie in terms of its earnestness and desire to be deep. It succeeds (in being deep) inasmuch as it always makes me think about the church, and about trends in the church. In a nutshell, it's about a group of academics—all of whom have been deeply wounded by life in a fallen, sinful world—who decide to follow one charismatic leader (William Hurt) into forming an 1800s-style commune on a nature preserve. Utopia will elude humans, because sin causes the dystopia. Recently, my friend Derek shared about what life was like growing up inside the Bill Gothard movement in the 1980s and '90s.
The Village and the Gothard arc show that in spite of our best efforts, sorrow still finds us. Here's Derek's story, in his words. [2] Disclaimer What is the draw? About The Proprietor. Welcome to Blog & Mablog. The name is taken from the prophet Ezekiel (Eze. 38:14-16), who was referring to a bad dude named Gog (from Magog), and if you make a little pun, you have a cultural and theological blog that sweeps down from the north out of Russia in order to invade the land of Israel. But I am supporter of Israel, so I don’t really know what that’s about. Anyway, the fulfillment of that prophecy is about as likely as the other one, and so why let a fun name go to waste?
My name is Douglas Wilson, and I am the chief cook and bottle washer around here. I am happily married to Nancy, 37 years and counting, and I have three kids and kids-in-law who all make me the right kind of proud, and I also have teeming hordes of grandchildren who come over to our house pretty regularly in order to terryhoot. By “teeming hordes” I mean sixteen. Here we are, happy as anything. The point of this blog is pretty broad — “All of Christ for all of life.” I post pretty regularly. Home. Family First!— Not a Biblical Viewpoint.
The Top 10 Philosophy, Science, and Theology Podcasts | Christian Apologetics Alliance. I believe in God. I don't believe in God | Giles Fraser. When I was younger I worked for a while on a hospital psychiatric ward as an orderly. I distinctly remember this lovely former headmistress who was gripped by the unusual fear that her body was hollow and full of urine. She would sleep sitting up because she believed that if she lay flat the urine would flow up into her throat and she would drown. Any inclination towards the horizontal and she would begin to cough and splutter. One afternoon, much taken with youthful confidence, I decided to reason her out of her bizarre belief system. She was clearly a clever woman, knowledgable about the world, and could complete the Times crossword in under an hour. So I sat beside her bed and tried to explain why these fears couldn't possibly be true. In a celebrated essay on Russian literature, Isaiah Berlin famously borrowed a quotation from the Greek poet Archilochus to distinguish two very different sorts of thinkers: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
" The Francis A. Schaeffer Foundation. Public Religion — Theoblogy — The Tony Jones Blog at Patheos. Carl Gregg — Pluralism, Progressivism, Pragmatism: A Protestant Pastor in a Postmodern World. Emergent Village — Voices of the Emergent Village Community. Coming Out Christian — Conversations about being Christian and gay in America. Christianity For the SBNR — Presbyterian pastor reaching beyond the liberal-conservative divide to an integrally informed, intelligible faith. The Bible and Culture — A One-Stop Shop for All Things Biblical and Christian. Slow Church — The Scriptorium — Philosophical Fragments — Daily Thoughts on Faith, Culture and Politics from Timothy Dalrymple.
C. S. Lewis on Evolution: It’s Sort of a British Thing. Peter Enns — rethinking biblical christianity... Euangelion — A Post-Post-Modern Blog On Scripture, Faith and Following Jesus. Cultivare — Reflections on the True, the Good and the Beautiful. Black, White and Gray — Where Christianity and Sociology Meet. Unequally Yoked — God and the Machine — {Take & Read} — \"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library\" {Jorge Luis Borges} Jesus Creed — Scot McKnight on Jesus and orthodox faith in the 21st century. The Work of the People — Films for Transformation and Discovery.
Church and Culture. Wavii. 100 Websites You Should Know and Use. In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.” Six years later, it remains one of the most viewed TED blog posts ever. Time for an update? We think so. Below, the 2013 edition of the 100 websites to put on your radar and in your browser. To see the original list, click here. And now, the original list from 2007, created by Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH. AMohler Blog. Noticing.