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My name is Laura and these are the wonderings of a theologically trained ponderer (me), writing out-loud, while exegeting her way through Ephesians and working to help form her small corner of the New Humanity in Christ.
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Integrated Souls Archive
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We bring ourselves with us to the dialogue
Posted on 2011/05/18 | No CommentsChristians are siblings in Christ and followers of Christ: we are one in him. Yet, there are barriers that make gathering difficult. We encounter these barriers when we gather with... -
The outcome of scholarship must not remain a pile of verbiage, however eloquent
Posted on 2011/05/17 | No CommentsIn 2010, I completed the StrengthsFinder assessment tool. The results were enlightening, though not surprising (for me or those who know me–a testament to its usefulness): learner intellection input ideation... -
Communicating reality: the glory and the corruption
Posted on 2011/04/27 | No CommentsIn his Stone lectures, which I read in abridged form, Kuyper proposes Calvinism as a life system from which all of life and thought can be engaged; persons having Calvinism... -
Learning to see reality
Posted on 2011/04/25 | No CommentsWe all have filters that distort our perception of reality and we all need filters to adequately communicate our perceptions and understandings to others. To communicate reality, our filters must... -
Why should we become better interpreters of glory?
Posted on 2011/04/10 | No CommentsWhy should we become better interpreters of glory? There ought to be something beyond the pleasure of the knowing (though this is a worthy secondary purpose). I will suggest discerning... -
Becoming better interpreters of glory
Posted on 2011/03/27 | 1 CommentI have a theory about human engagement with creation. This theory is based on our shared reflection of God’s glory. Humanity shares this reflection of glory with all creation, though... -
Living Glory in the Dailies
Posted on 2011/03/20 | No CommentsRecognizing Glory We recognize authentic glory through the witness of Scripture and Spirit. Scripture, as the linguistic revelation of God, is the narrative context by which all of reality is... -
Kuyper’s Calvinistic Life System as a Matrix for Glory-ology
Posted on 2011/03/13 | 1 CommentA Life System This week I began reading an abridged version of Abraham Kuyper’s 1898 Stone Lectures. In Lecture One, he speaks about life systems as that which explain humanity’s... -
Worldview: Learning to ask the right questions
Posted on 2011/03/06 | No CommentsStructure and Direction In Creation Regained, Wolters describes a helpful way of thinking about creation under heaven. God’s creation is good by design, but his design has been corrupted by... -
Worldview is so much more than a heading in a theology book
Posted on 2011/02/26 | No CommentsWorldview is Personal Our worldview determines how we live. If the underlying structure of the world is designed, purposeful, and knowable, and if the direction of the world ends in...
