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AUG 2008
by David Wright
2) Performance is not really worship, though how American Christians would know the difference is beyond me. Our entire sensibility about large gatherings where music is played and sung, or where a story is told, has been shaped by attending concerts, plays, films. We are there to be entertained. We know our role: to consume pleasure, fear, pathos, irony, or some other aesthetic commodity and, when the event is over, we offer critique.
2) Performance is not really worship, though how American Christians would know the difference is beyond me. Our entire sensibility about large gatherings where music is played and sung, or where a story is told, has been shaped by attending concerts, plays, films. We are there to be entertained. We know our role: to consume pleasure, fear, pathos, irony, or some other aesthetic commodity and, when the event is over, we offer critique.
pious nietzsche
by Bruce Ellis Benson
Who would have thought that Friedrich Nietzsche could rightly be described as homo religiosus or a person of faith? If anything seems to be true, it is that his credentials as “secular thinker” are sterling. As a vehement critic of Christianity, Nietzsche seems the paradigmatic “atheist” and “nihilist.” Yet Nietzsche’s thought is much closer to religion than has been generally recognized.
by Bruce Ellis Benson
Who would have thought that Friedrich Nietzsche could rightly be described as homo religiosus or a person of faith? If anything seems to be true, it is that his credentials as “secular thinker” are sterling. As a vehement critic of Christianity, Nietzsche seems the paradigmatic “atheist” and “nihilist.” Yet Nietzsche’s thought is much closer to religion than has been generally recognized.
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why did people invent war?
by Zach Kincaid
No wonder Jesus liked children. Their naivety allows questions that carry no inhibition. I was telling our children the story about David finding Saul in a cave and he... “Pulls out his big sword and slices his head off...” interrupted our seven-year-old.
by Zach Kincaid
No wonder Jesus liked children. Their naivety allows questions that carry no inhibition. I was telling our children the story about David finding Saul in a cave and he... “Pulls out his big sword and slices his head off...” interrupted our seven-year-old.
struck dumb
by Tim Sean
Silence can be chosen as spiritual discipline. Do you want to hear from God, then it logically follows that you should be quiet and listen. To get a more pure version of Christianity we often go backwards in church history to get closer in proximity to the ancient church. Folks then were closer to Jesus, we say, so they were more attuned to what Jesus was up to, chronological and cultural proximity and all that. Perhaps there is some truth to that. The tradition of the “desert fathers” has been romanticized in Christian literature...
by Tim Sean
Silence can be chosen as spiritual discipline. Do you want to hear from God, then it logically follows that you should be quiet and listen. To get a more pure version of Christianity we often go backwards in church history to get closer in proximity to the ancient church. Folks then were closer to Jesus, we say, so they were more attuned to what Jesus was up to, chronological and cultural proximity and all that. Perhaps there is some truth to that. The tradition of the “desert fathers” has been romanticized in Christian literature...
