I have some coworkers who are sufficiently loud for me to hear them from my cube. The conversations, particularly the especially loud ones, are rarely about work. A few days ago, one of them was relating a story about how, a few years ago, another coworker told him “I don’t think God would want you [...]
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I Don’t Think That Word Means What You Think It Means
Posted in Religious on January 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Posted in Religious on January 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A few months ago, Katy Perry’s cleavage raised eyebrows on Sesame Street. I personally, was very disappointed. I thought that Sesame Street was long dead. As it turns out, Sesame Street is still out there, motoring along as always, minding its P’s and Q’s (and so on), still managing to coerce those poor suckers in [...]
Deutero-Isaiah
Posted in Religious on October 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’ve read the Old Testament cover to cover somewhere around 5 times. Every single time, I bog down in the Psalms, all 150 of them, then begin slogging. Every time I get mired even more in Isaiah…then hit chapter 40 and it all changes. Really, it changes a few chapters before then, when it switches [...]
Distinctives
Posted in Religious on September 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t really care about the topic of Glenn Beck’s pseudo-Christianity. I find it interesting how some politically motivated Christians make strange bedfellows for the sake of political expediency. For the record, I offer no condemnation of the Mormon people. I take issue with their theology; their behavior is generally admirable, until you get to [...]
Young, Restless, Reformed…
Posted in Religious on August 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
…white, upper middle class, educated. I have a theological periodicity of something like 8 years. It takes roughly 8 years for me to cycle through various flavors of Christianity. About three years ago, I peaked as a reformed person. And why not? I’m white, upper middle class, educated, old at heart, haughty, wordy. I enjoy [...]
Haiti
Posted in Religious on January 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Here are the Furst family choices for Haiti donations: Partners In Health is an organization that Jen has known about for a while. Haiti is their thing – they have over 100 doctors and 500 nurses that operate out of Haiti regularly. Boots on the ground. World Relief has been my biggest non-church contribution for [...]
Flame
Posted in Religious on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Most non-Christian or mainline folk probably don’t know how many churches reach out to young folk these days, but thanks to someone for making this and thanks to Jason for passing it along. And thanks to Jen K for reminding me to watch it.
Celibate Celebrity
Posted in Religious on May 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A few months back, a popular Catholic priest, Alberto Cutie, was photographed with a woman. A few days ago, unable to regain his footing in the Catholic church, he chose to switch to the Episcopalian church. I think this warrants a list. 1) It remains beyond me as to where the Catholics get this celibacy [...]
Immutable
Posted in Religious on May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I can’t remember who pointed me toward Heresies and How to Avoid Them, but whatever the case, I’m reading it now. Right belief is important – why is it important? Because the truth about God is bigger than any fiction. Take the ancient heresy of Theopascitism, which has been reinvigorated in various forms over the [...]
Sing Me A Song
Posted in Religious on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you want to write contemporary Christian music, these words are all you need.
Ephesians
Posted in Exegesis on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While the standard issue retreat ended up not happening, I did some background research on Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians over the last 8 or 10 months. Here is the resulting outline. You’ll notice it’s mostly just a book report of Hoehner’s Ephesians commentary – he was the most recent of the commentaries that I [...]
The Dudek Way
Posted in Miscellaneous, Religious on April 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Unbeknownst to me, former Kubemate Karl knows of the existence of this website. When he told me that he wanted to ask me something about the site a few days ago, I was apprehensive – after all, most times that comes up it’s because I’ve insulted someone gravely. Thankfully, that was not the case, this [...]
Papists
Posted in Religious on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First, you have Pope Benedict affirming sola fide, by “faith alone”. Now you have him pulling back on his claims of infallibility, hinting that only google is infallible. Well, shoot, we’re a bucketful of rosaries and a few dozen outlandish doctrines on the Virgin Mary away from some sort of meaningful reconcilliation!
Justice and The Gospels
Posted in Religious on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Without delving too deeply into the actual content of an NT Wright lecture that Jen’s house church was investigating tonight, I want to focus on a conclusion that he drew from it. The discussion focused on the last three minutes of the lecture. There was some balance of justice, beauty and evangelism, according to Wright. [...]
Hey Mr Wilson!
Posted in Religious on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My man Trevin Wax has led me to green pastures once again. I had never heard of Douglas Wilson, but NT Wright is so compelling in his arguments that I need an intelligent, informed counter-balance. I know that I am easily impressed by erudition, and some questions are too important to accept the answers without [...]
Laundry List
Posted in Religious on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have a sizable handful of posts built up dealing with the post-modern “church”, the anti-tradition/establishment movement and the vague wishy-wash that is my generation, both religiously and in general. As of yet, I don’t have a full enough perspective to write on it for any real purpose – purposeless polemics present as little more [...]
Meet The Parents
Posted in Religious on December 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Before anyone starts putting two and two together here, I swear this particular thought has no real life motivation – I rediscovered it two weeks ago. Seriously. I have, in the past, been frustrated by Christians who refused to read the Old Testament, considering it to be too esoteric or at least partially obsoleted. First [...]
No, Virginia
Posted in Religious on December 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
People have a tendency to create for themselves idols, whittled from their own imaginations, and then worship them. Some are innocuous – for instance, the Spirit of Christmas, embodied in Santa Claus, has driven his sled team further and further from the Spirit of God. It’s hard to de-Christ Christmas, but ho ho ho, Santa [...]
A Child, A Child Shivers in the Cold
Posted in Religious on December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is more than one way to miss the point of Christmas. Starting at its worst manifestation, Christmas is about us. It is about what we receive, and about the feeling we get when we give – it is a glorified Valentine’s Day, a holiday created to celebrate business’s ability to market wares to shallow [...]
Then What?
Posted in Religious on November 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In recent discussions, I’ve made a point that certain issues have become disproportionately emphasized in the modern church. During a supernova event, if you’ll bear with me for a minute, the energy output from the one star undergoing supernova can briefly surpass the output of the entire remainder of the galaxy, dozens to hundreds of [...]
Pack Your Bags Mr DeadGuy, You’re Headed to Heaven!
Posted in Religious on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You can always count on the Mormons to do silly religious things bolstered by flimsy theological reasoning. One of my favorites if the posthumous baptism of non-Mormons. I can relate to the Jews discontent here. I was once informed by a friend who liked me that she would be praying that my heart would be [...]
On Marriage
Posted in Religious on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
First off, I like the headline for this article. “Church tells ‘obvious lies’ about gay marriage.” You’d think that maybe they’d give you an example…but no such luck. I’m interest in what “lies” were promulgated, but I suspect it was just an out of context quote that could have otherwise been recorded “I’m mad, and [...]
Roland Regulatory Commission
Posted in Politics, Religious on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Despite how hilarious his pictures are, I generally find myself in agreement with Roland Martin on many topics, especially politics. I don’t know what his political affiliation is. I also tend to agree with Glenn Beck, and I think he’s a republican. One can only assume Roland is not a republican. He argues his points [...]
Take the Bad With the Good
Posted in Religious on September 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It all seems like a big, haphazard mess sometimes. Juxtaposition has been the theme of the past few days for me. There’s a big wedding coming up. But then there’s the new husband, maimed for life in a crash, his wife obliterated by how tenuous their life together has become. There’s dinner, but then there’s [...]
AOG
Posted in Politics, Religious on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I wrote a few weeks ago about Obama’s former pastor. It’s only fair that I cover Sarah Palin’s as well. I have some familiarity with the Assembly of God (AOG). I respect a few people that go to or used to go to that variety of church. The summer after I went to a black [...]
Many Glacier and Gable Creek
Posted in Pictures, Religious on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m almost through with the low hanging fruit. Here are the pictures from Many Glacier and Gable Creek. Addendum And how about it, lets do Glenns Lake too. Addendum 2 Often times I will jot down notes on a little pad in my night stand right before bed. Sometimes I’ll write down fragments of dreams [...]
Charismatic Cloud In Trousers
Posted in Politics, Religious on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Building on a foundation begun by Paul, reformed theologians have made much of the biblical distinction between leadership and headship. While there is significant overlap, a leader is what you would normally consider someone in charge, while a head necessarily involves a metaphorical representation of the rest of the body. Biblically, this is used to [...]
Why The Why
Posted in Pseudo-Philosophical Ponderings, Religious on July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Like a good reformed theologian, I subscribe to Table Talk from Ligonier Ministries. I actually signed up for a 3 year subscription. It was very economical, and it isn’t my intention to change appreciably between now and 2 and a half years from now. I also need to compensate for being only 70% reformed, but [...]
Two Wrongs
Posted in Politics, Religious on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You may have seen the recent stir caused by Obama’s theologically misinformed statements on the Bible. It’s actually more of a “retro stir” as he said these things two years ago, and we dug them up to try to beat him with it now that we think he needs a good political flogging. Nevertheless I [...]
Meaning In Context
Posted in Religious on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of NT Wright’s main goals in “Jesus and the Victory of God” is to find common ground between theology and history. Wright, though himself a Christian, is also an academician. When one wages his battles in that war, he can’t assume the same premises that many Christians do. A major question to historians of [...]
Study Guide
Posted in Religious on May 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Justin, Ben McCoy (emeritus) and I will be reading NT Wright’s “Jesus and the Victory of God” early this summer. I’ve started a forum for us to discuss it, if there’s any reason why you’d think that you’d want to follow along, take a gander here. I can tell you that it looks to be [...]
Blood Split
Posted in Religious on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The king of the multi-task, I was not in Philadelphia for the Penn Relays exclusively this weekend. Now, I have never been to a Christian conference. When offered the opportunity by some new friends from my church (I can say that now, as I officially joined it last Sunday) to go see the Reformed All-Stars [...]
Calvin’s Razor
Posted in Religious on March 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If the Bible is one thing, it is God-centric. The hero of the Bible is not man, but God. God does the action; even when we do the action, he takes credit for it. Why? For his own glory. We like to humanize God, and as a result we have a hard time dealing with [...]
Music One
Posted in Miscellaneous, Religious on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I got a gift certificate at work today. Instead of giving real money or bonuses, there was a rumor that they sometimes gave out gift certificates, even though no one ever confirmed it. Well, they do. $100 to be exact. I save a lot of money, and spend a lot of it too. That said, [...]
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State of Misbelief
Posted in Religious, Social Commentaries on May 10, 2012 | 3 Comments »
A couple days ago, North Carolina passed an amendment to their constitution defining marriage to be between a man and a woman. I don’t agree with such an amendment, though I’m not as fired up (and frankly, as closed minded and vitriolic) as others who have been lambasting the vote. A few things about the [...]
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