Vincent: What’s this? Dr. Lamar: New Policy, what’s the matter? Flight got you nervous. Vincent: Nope, there’s a problem Lamar… Dr. Lamar: …I still haven’t told you about my son have I. He’s a big fan of yours… Vincent: Just remember. I was as good as any, and better than most… Dr. Lamar: …He wants…
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There Can’t Be Spring if We’re Stuck in Fall: Rob Bell, Death & Life
Jesus talks about death and rebirth constantly, his and ours. He calls us to let go, turn away, renounce, confess, repent, and leave behind the old ways. He talks of the life that will come from his own death, and he promises that life will flow to us in thousands of small ways as we…
Bonhoeffer’s “Metanoia”
July 21, 1944 I discovered later, and I’m still discovering right up to this moment, that it is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. One must completely abandon any attempt to make something of oneself, whether it be a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a…
God Does Not (Not) Exist
The third level is the most difficult but the most important. This is second-order negation, or the inversion of the inversion. Here we would say, “God is not a fire, but God is not a not-fire either,” and “God is not love, but neither is God not-love.” God transcends the (human-based) distinction between love and…
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The Church is Irrational, Contradictory, Hypocritical and Perfect
I can always tell an idea is good if it sticks in my head for more than three days. A passage from the book my book study group just finished has been rolling around in my head for almost three weeks now! The book is Flickering Pixels by Shane Hipps, and drawing on the language…
Technology weaving us into one planetary brain? Don’t be such a neuron!
I Read a super interesting article by Robert Wright in the NYT (via Micheal Dowd) about the evolution of technology. He starts out by making some simple observations about the effects technology has on people, such as being distracted easily or finding it hard to focus on one thing for very long, and the tendency…
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Farmville and Why Aliens Haven’t Invaded
FWY x ILD Collaboration Pattern by I Love Dust I listened to TWiT this morning while I worked, as is my custom on Mondays. Leo and the gang, enthralling as ever, started talking about the funny, interesting and possibly detrimental reality of Farmville. Yes, Farmville. Leo referenced an article by A.J. Liskiewicz which discusses some…