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Pilgrimage: Life of a Pilgrim on Campus (Scholar’s Compass)

May 24, 2015 by Jamie Noyd No Comments

As we near the end of this series of devotions on pilgrimage, let’s return to where we began, on that highway to Jerusalem in Psalm 84. On that highway travelers have their hearts set on arriving in Jerusalem and worshipping in God’s holy temple. With their focus set on this story, the path they walk becomes one of refreshing springs even in the desert. When we encounter Paul in Athens, he is also following a story, a story that begins on a road to Damascus.

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Scholar's Compass, Transitions Tagged With: Apostle Paul, Athens, community, liminal space, Pilgrimage, Psalms, Scholar's Compass, transition

Book Review: The Gospel in the Marketplace of Ideas

January 30, 2015 by Bob Trube No Comments

The Gospel in the Marketplace of Ideas: Paul’s Mars Hill Experience for Our Pluralistic World By Paul Copan and Kenneth D. Litwak My rating: 4 of 5 stars Relevance and faithfulness. Any teacher of any religious tradition is faced with this tension as they move from one cultural context to the next. One has to […]

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy, Public Intellectuals Tagged With: Apostle Paul, Athens, Book Review, culture, Mars Hill, Pluralism, public intellectuals, The Gospel in the Marketplace of Ideas, The Gospel in the Marketplace of Ideas: Paul’s Mars Hill Experience for Our Pluralistic World

Devotions: “In-spite-of” Wisdom

April 13, 2014 by Carl Shank 1 Comment

“For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.” Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new. So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Wisdom Tagged With: Areopagus, Athens, common ground, discernment, patience, philosophy, Prayer, questions, respect, trust in God, wisdom, witness

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