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Come Home [Balm in Gilead / Summer Read…Quote…Reflect]

July 19, 2019 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

What novel or series of novels provides “windows” to your life, family, community / communities, and / or vocation? Have you (and / or some of your friends) been invited by the Lord to “come home” through a novelist? What is unique about a novel written through the lens of a well-developed Christian perspective on daily life?

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Filed Under: Devotional, Quotes Tagged With: Balm in Gilead, intervarsity press, Marilynne Robinson, novel, Read...Quote...Reflect

Great Theology, Teachableness, & John Calvin [Balm in Gilead / Summer Read…Quote…Reflect]

July 12, 2019 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

In an essay on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, [Marilynne] Robinson declared that “great theology is always a kind of giant and intricate poetry, like epic or saga. . . .”

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Filed Under: Devotional, Quotes Tagged With: Balm in Gilead, dietrich bonhoeffer, intervarsity press, John Calvin, Marilynne Robinson, Read...Quote...Reflect, Timothy George

The praise that pours forth from the lips of . . . [Balm in Gilead / Summer Read…Quote…Reflect Series]

July 5, 2019 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

Join me in pressing into the call to hunger and thirst for the Lord (individually and as part of the people of God in a particular place) in the mundane of study, vocation, and practice.

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Filed Under: Devotional, Quotes Tagged With: Augustine, Balm in Gilead, Confessions, intervarsity press, Marilynne Robinson, Read...Quote...Reflect

Healing…Fiction…Connectedness [Balm in Gilead / Summer Read…Quote…Reflect]

June 28, 2019 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

With summer unfolding, I thought that it would be good to go the direction of Read…Quote…Reflect, beginning with a series on “Balm in Gilead: A Theological Dialogue with Marilynne Robinson” – an InterVarsity Press publication resulting from the 2018 Wheaton Theology Conference.

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Filed Under: Devotional, Quotes Tagged With: Balm in Gilead, fiction, healing, intervarsity press, Marilynne Robinson, Read...Quote...Reflect, rest, Rowan Williams, Shawn E. Okpebholo

Entering One Holy Week

April 14, 2019 by ESN Announce No Comments

Thank you to Kirsten Wagenius for sharing “ONE HOLY WEEK: an Easter journey from palms to persecution to praise” with the Emerging Scholars Network!

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Filed Under: Devotional Tagged With: Holy Week, lent, Lent 2019, Palm Sunday

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