He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? -- Micah 6:8 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish there are shouts of gladness. -- Proverbs 11:10 When behind me arose such a clatter, I turned to see what was the matter. And what did I find? A little one eager to add Amy Sherman's Kingdom Calling: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good (InterVarsity Press. … [Read more...] about Kingdom Calling in the New Year
Public Intellectuals
Correspondence theory & Updike’s “Seven Stanzas of Easter”
When considering the correspondence theory of truth in Christianity and Literature: Philosophical Foundations and Critical Practice (Christian Worldview Integration Series. InterVarsity Press. 2011), David Lyle Jeffrey and Gregory Maillet refer to John Updike's Seven Stanzas at Easter (1960).* Enjoy this excerpt from a "bold, wonderfully learned manifesto ... [which] breathes a prophetic passion -- bracing, salutary and sometimes uncomfortable -- that transcends mere academic discussion and leaves the reader … [Read more...] about Correspondence theory & Updike’s “Seven Stanzas of Easter”
‘The Dying God Myth’ & the Inklings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt_rMtKhPuo&=300 Promotional Video for Looking for the King: An Inklings Novel. In Chapter 7 of Looking for the King: An Inklings Novel (Ignatius Press. 2010), David C. Downing (R.W. Schlosser Professor of English at Elizabethtown College, PA, & C.S. Lewis Scholar who has written several books for InterVarsity Press) provides a captivating, lively and creative envisioning of Inklings conversation. Last night as I was reading and discussing Chapter 7 with one of daughters, I … [Read more...] about ‘The Dying God Myth’ & the Inklings
A few minutes with Updike’s “Seven Stanzas at Easter”
Make no mistake: if He rose at all it was as His body; if the cells' dissolution did not reverse, the molecules reknit, the amino acids rekindle, the Church will fall. -- John Updike. Seven Stanzas at Easter. 1960. Accessed at http://www.iserv.net/~stpats/Updike.htm (4/21/2011). While reading Kent Annan's After Shock: Searching for Honest Faith When Your World Is Shaken (InterVarsity Press. 2011), I came across selections from John Updike's Seven Stanzas at Easter. On Easter, as he wrestles with faith in the … [Read more...] about A few minutes with Updike’s “Seven Stanzas at Easter”
Brief Reflection on “The Great Sin”
Just finished reading C.S. Lewis' The Horse and His Boy with one of my girls. What did she learn? To listen to the Lion, i.e., God Beware of pride How about these as Lenten lessons? In my April 1 reading of The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C.S. Lewis (C.S. Lewis, Walter Hooper. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1984), I was reminded of C.S. Lewis' focused thoughts on "The Great Sin" of pride/self-conceit (Mere Christianity. MacMillan, 1975, Book III, Chapter 8). Below's a challenging … [Read more...] about Brief Reflection on “The Great Sin”