Reimaging Xianity in the wake of Modernism's passing
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Monday Morning Reading
about 1 week ago - No comments
Here are a few interesting reads from this past week. There’s something for everyone.*
Gorillas Riding Dinosaurs | Atomic Robo vs. the X-Men in… “The Time Topic” – Self explanatory, meaning, if you don’t get it by the link title, you aren’t into comics or time travel and you should just go ahead and skip it.
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Paul and Original Sin
about 2 weeks ago - 5 comments
Scott asked me the other day what I thought about original sin. I told him that I did not buy into the Calvinist view of Original Sin, but that I knew that Wesleyan theology held to Original Sin but that we are still able to accept the gift of Salvation with free will. Not a very good answer, I know, but I was being honest. I think one view is foolish and unfounded, I know of another view which seems more palpable, but in the end, I have sinned and OS doesn’t really matter to me. It’s worth noting that I come from, though am no longer a part of, a denomination that has historically denied the doctrine.
But, as I was doing some fact-checking on McLaren’s sections on Romans, I came across this passage on Paul and Original Sin…
The Return to a Primitive Christianity is Impossible.
about 2 weeks ago - 2 comments
Having rejected the aid of the community of interpreters throughout the history of Christendom, we have not succeeded in returning to the primitive gospel; we have simply managed to plunge ourselves back to the biases of our own individual situations.
- Lints, Fabric of Theology, 93Scridb filter
Currently Reading
about 4 weeks ago - 2 comments
Barger, Lilian Calles. Eve’s Revenge: Women and a Spirituality of the Body. Brazos Press, 2003.
Howard, Robert E. The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian. 4th ed. Ballantine Del Ray, 2003.
Mclaren, Brian D. A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith. 1st ed. HarperOne, 2010.
Prothero, Stephen. God Is Not [...]
Help Needed for Online Student Forum Participation and Grading
about 1 month ago - No comments
This semester, my online class is doing so much better in terms of discussion. I attribute it tougher and more concrete requirements and I am forcing myself to give detailed feedback the day after the discussion posts are due.
While the content of the discussions are up (especially the posts), there still is a lingering problem of overall student cross-engagement. I want to improve the overall quality of discussion, not just increase individual outputs. So, I am thinking of trying out the following methods and I’d like to get your feedback on them.
Guilty fabergé eggs
about 1 month ago - 5 comments
I take it as a mark of godliness that my immediate Christian community is able to follow God’s command to be stewards of this Earth and we are beginning to be conscious of and find ways to evangelize without resorting to making asses out of ourselves and our Lord. And we do this while not merely inverting the fundamentalist/reformed paradigms. We still value just as much the seeking of Christ and faith in him for the acceptance of the forgiveness of sin. We still see the Bible as the only God-Stamped revelation. But, there is one thing we still lack…
Religion is to be defended…
about 1 month ago - 2 comments
Religion is to be defended – not by putting to death – but by dying. Not by cruelty, but by patient endurance. Not by guilt, but by good faith. For the former belongs to evil, but the latter to good…
For if you wish to defend religion by bloodshed, tortures, and guilt, it will be [...]
