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CURRENT EVENT – MAY 27, 2012
It’s an old sailor’s cliché: the moment you stop respecting the sea is the moment it kills you. A similar sentiment might apply to a lot of the things we do. Driving a car, for instance. Or crossing the street.
CURRENT EVENT – MAY 20, 2012
A few years back, I read a book called The Irresistible Revolution: Living as Ordinary Radicals, by Shane Claiborne. It’s a book I recommend–because it’s about someone trying to figure out what it means to live as a Christian in today’s world.
CURRENT EVENT – MAY 13, 2012
After I read this week’s Scripture passage–Ephesians 5:1-10–it didn’t take me long to find a blog post that seemed to cover some of the same ground. The post’s title? “Kingdom and Cross.”
CURRENT EVENT – MAY 6, 2012
As I looked over this week’s session, I found myself thinking about C.S. Lewis’ argument that people, for the most part, instinctively know right from wrong. He makes this argument in his book, Mere Christianity:
CURRENT EVENT – APRIL 29, 2012
I recently read an interesting post on the Jesus Creed blog about ways Christians can decide which of the voices (!) in their head is actually God. (Okay, maybe I’m embellishing the thesis statement a little!)
CURRENT EVENT – APRIL 15, 2012
As I read today’s passage, I kept remembering a scene from Shadowlands, a film about the relationship between C.S. Lewis and his wife, Joy Gresham. (I’m remembering the American version of the movie though I hear the BBC version is superior. One day, I’ll get around to watching it.)
CURRENT EVENT – APRIL 8, 2012
As I write this post, the Hunger Games movie has been out for a few days. I read the books in this dystopian series last year and enjoyed them, but the truth is that I hadn’t given the books much thought since then–at least until I read an article over at Relevant magazine about why the story of the Hunger Games resonates so strongly with so many.
CURRENT EVENT – APRIL 1, 2012
Today’s passage tells the story of Jesus’ last supper with his disciples. Something about the way these verses read makes Jesus’ excitement hard to hear–but it’s definitely there.
CURRENT EVENT – MARCH 25, 2012
During the week, I often read Scot McKnight’s “Jesus Creed” blog. As I was skimming through recent posts, I came across a post titled “This is just too much….”
CURRENT EVENT-MARCH 18, 2012
Does wealth and status affect our behavior and attitudes? That’s the question psychologist, Paul Piff, and his colleagues set out to answer through a series of seven experiments.