Viva la Zevon
Filed under: from the profane to the sublime
October 28, 2009 • 7:27 pm 0
Hermeneutics Video #2
Sometimes our problems with reading and understanding the Bible comes from a lack of imagination rather than too much imagination. This clip reminds us that the French have a sense of humor.
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October 27, 2009 • 7:27 pm 0
2nd Best Halloween Song: Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
This was Warren Zevon’s last appearance on the Letterman show. He died a few months later after a long battle with cancer. It’s a bit rough but so was Mr. Zevon especially at this time of his life.
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October 5, 2009 • 7:49 pm 0
My Father, Maker of the Trees
This week, Tracey (Diaz) Lawrence, will be sharing about her most recent book which she co-authored with Eric Irivuzumugabe. It’s a story of survival, forgiveness and hope after the Rwandan genocide.
Join us at the Wheatland Mission, this Saturday, at 5:30.
Filed under: books, from the profane to the sublime
August 10, 2009 • 1:20 pm 2
One of these…
… was eating from our Sunflowers. It is an American Goldfinch, Carduelis tristis.
Filed under: Good and Beautiful, from the profane to the sublime
June 23, 2009 • 8:39 pm 0
The Friendship of Knowledge and Faith
“Faith extends you where you don’t know on the basis of what you do know.” – Dallas Willard sharing some ideas from his new book, Knowing Christ Today: Why We Can Trust Spiritual Knowledge
Filed under: Willard, from the profane to the sublime
May 31, 2009 • 6:24 pm 3
Bonhoeffer on Resistance to Evil
The news about Dr. George Tiller today makes the recent quotes from Miroslav Volf and this one from Bonhoeffer especially timely and relevant. At times like this I am reminded of Romans 12:21: “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”
“The only way to overcome evil is to let it run itself to a standstill because it does not find the resistance it is looking for. Resistance merely creates further evil and adds fuel to the flames. But when evil meets no opposition and encounters no obstacle but only patient endurance, its sting is drawn, and at last it meets an opponent which is more than its match.”
–Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
HT: RustinSmyth
Filed under: Bonhoeffer, from the profane to the sublime , Bonhoeffer, Miroslav Volf
April 17, 2009 • 8:40 am 2
Switchin’ Sides: #1
This is a first in a series. I have several “firsts in series” but maybe this one won’t become an orphaned post in the archives of Tangence.
A.N. Wilson has written biographies on many of Christianity’s heavy hitters. People like C.S. Lewis, Tolstoy, the Apostle Paul and Jesus. (The heaviest hitter?) He has been a long time skeptic of faith close to the camp of folk like Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins. However, after going through a kind of renaissance in his own faith he has returned to the church.
Here is an article of his where he shares his experience of Palm Sunday: Religion of Hatred by A.N. Wilson.
Also, check out this one: Why I Believe Again
Filed under: books, from the profane to the sublime, pilgrimage
April 6, 2009 • 10:13 am 8
It’s a coot!
Thanks to my friend Rich I was able to identify this little guy who decided to take up residence on my porch last week. Part of the “rail” family the American Coot is not worth eating and is a poor flyer. It’s no wonder that he is a poor flyer when you take a look at those feet the poor thing has to haul aroud.
He evidently thought this cast iron pig (don’t ask) sitting on my porch looked like one of his kin. We enjoyed having this little visitor on our porch. He’s more interesting than his big, messy Canada goose cousin.
Filed under: from the profane to the sublime
What You’re Saying