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Why do older people—with almost no exceptions in my experience—call it MACdonalds?
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Currently reading: Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls đź“š
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@KyleEssary would love to see the syllabus for that if you can share
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@jabel Lewis and Tolkien were two writers especially attuned to the aliveness of creation as depicted in Scripture. The poetics of the Bible seem to be key in recovering such a vision.
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@jabel Interesting. On a related note, the increasing popularity of Panpsychism seems to have a similar religious/philosophcal angle to it. (Though the verdict is still out on if it really solves anything...or not).
​I'm new to the ecological literature, but I recently read Jason Hickel's Less Is More and had some similar thoughts to you. As a Christian with a fairly traditional understanding of the God-World relation, I'm hopeful that traditional monotheism need not be jettisoned entirely. I believe (though this belief is regularly tested) that orthodox Christian faith is capacious enough to incorporate the sort of "ecological" insights of late: the inter-connectedness of all reality, reciprocity, and so on.
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Currently reading: The Community of the King by Howard A. Snyder đź“š
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@ReaderJohn you were Reformed for a good stretch before Orthodoxy, yes?
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A Christian can never say, “I knew the power of the Holy Spirit yesterday, so today I can be at rest.” It is one of the existential realities of the Christian life to stand before God consciously recognizing our need. […]
Christians must humble themselves to know the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit. To the extent that we do not humble ourselves, there will be no power of the Holy Spirit in our lives. The Lord’s work in the Lord’s way is the Lord’s work in the power of the Holy Spirit and not in the power of the flesh.
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Currently reading: The Lord’s Work in the Lord’s Way and No Little People by Francis A. Schaeffer 📚
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Enjoyed celebrating with my mom on Thursday at the opening for the ACC Faculty Exhibition
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@KyleEssary I have not! I will read with great interest...
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Traditional evangelical churches tend to emphasize personal piety and rarely help believers understand how to maintain and apply their Christian beliefs and practice in the worlds of the arts, business, scholarship, and government. Many churches do not know how to disciple members without essentially pulling them out of their vocations and inviting them to become heavily involved in church activities. In other words, Christian discipleship is interpreted as consisting largely of activities done in the evening or on the weekend.
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Most American evangelical churches are middle class in their corporate culture. That is, they value privacy, safety, homogeneity, sentimentality, space, order, and control. In contrast, the city is filled with ironic, edgy, diversity-loving people who have a high tolerance for ambiguity and disorder. On the whole, they value intensity and access more than comfort and control.
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@ReaderJohn very interesting. Perhaps in a similar vein: I've heard Joe Minich talk about the difficulties in defining "modernity" and how one useful way of dating it is to look at when people began to self-describe as "modern."
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The massive growth and influence of cities in our time confront Christian mission with an enormous challenge. The first problem is one of sheer scale and economics. It is critical that we have Christians and churches wherever there are people, but the people of the world are now moving into the great cities of the world many times faster than the church is. Christian communication and ministry must always be translated into every new language and context, but the Christian church is not responding fast enough to keep up with the rapid population growth in cities.
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@ReaderJohn Curious to hear your thoughts as you make your way through. Myth was also quite generative in my thinking a number of years ago; would be interesting to revisit now...
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Landscape with a Woodland Pool (c. 1497) by Albrecht DĂĽrer:
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Courtyard of the Former Castle in Innsbruck without Clouds (1494) by Albrecht DĂĽrer:
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View of the Arco Valley (1495) by Albrecht DĂĽrer:
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Currently reading: The Revenge of Conscience by J. Budziszewski đź“š
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@ablerism interesting! How did you acquire Till We Have? I've heard it's out of print and difficult to procure.
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Did this to get the folding table flush with the dining table. Who says medieval history isn’t practical?
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Our makeshift table in the living room for dinner/games with family this evening. It passed Lewis’s inspection.
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@tinyroofnail #respect
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@ReaderJohn I'm an unabashed Prot fwiw. But I confess I have no appetite left for convos on how "personal salvation" (or justification) relates to "gospel" or "kingdom" or what have you. I'm sure it's a useful book. Even so, the debates seem interminable, and each side seems destined to reduce or truncate some aspect of the whole to fit their frame.
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@KyleEssary we're on our second read-through as a family
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@tinyroofnail sounds like you have a case of helplessness blues
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@ablerism such a stimulating book! I read it months ago and it still provokes my subconscious at times...
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@JohnBrady enjoy! I shared more than a few block quotes on my recent read through
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@JohnBrady this is really some of my first sustained listening to Dylan - have enjoyed it on the first few times through
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@tinyroofnail helpful - thanks for sharing! I agree with Alan that the SCT is largely persuasive and yet has had almost no impact. His essay offers what SCT writers often omit: a creative (potential) pathway out of the Technopoly. Would love to hear more in this vein...
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@dwalbert good (and terrifying) point. My wife tells me I need to be more optimistic, so...
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@dwalbert very true! perhaps we could say that the computer is the crowning metaphor of Technopoly - the realization of a dream that's been in the works for centuries
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@ablerism of course! I do this with only my present and future self in mind, but always heartened if it's useful to others.
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@danalcantara @mwerickson Amen!