If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The process of figuring out this blog—its content, focus, and format—has been in flux since the inception (by which I mean the original Who in the World Are We? over on blogspot. Despite the danger inherent in changing it...
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My name is Laura and I am on a journey, pondering the implications of God's glorious design of humanity and integrating four aspects of this design—spiritual, intellectual, affective, and physical health—into a description of whole life health.
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Sometimes, when an idea is not working, it needs transformation, not a mere makeover
Giving up a Latte is not Suffering
If suffering is the result of wholeheartedly setting aside our needs and desires for the good of the Kingdom and its King, then who we are as humanity and who we are becoming as the new humanity in Christ cannot occur apart from suffering.
It seems to me that “wholeheartedly” ought to be modified, nearly...
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Learning Across the Random Bits of Life
Apart from submission to the one true Lord, the freedom within a learning context and the freedom resulting from honed skills and knowledge are illusions.
If this is all there is, if existence is merely the span from birth to death, then what is the point? Certainly, there is a flow of legacies...
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Following as Community in a Sea of Distraction
Spiritual formation begins when we acknowledge Jesus as the one true sovereign among the many possible sovereigns.
We are so easily distracted. Needs, real and imagined, external and internal, impose themselves upon our hearts and we are drawn away from the intention to love our one true sovereign. If Jesus is the context that...
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A Review of Christian Archy
by David Allen Black
Gonzalez, FL: Energion Publications (C) 2009, 43 pages, $9.99 (paper)
Flow of Thought
Chapter 1: The church was subverted by Christendom into a self-sufficient and self-important entity that has nothing to do with biblical Christianity; the way forward from Christendom to Christian archy is to return to the proclamation and practice of...
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What has Kierkegaard to do with our common life?
Our relational life is both subjective and objective. Subjectively, our various perspectives interact in mutual influence, producing freshness and creativity that are otherwise unlikely. Objectively, our trust connection to Christ produces essential communality spanning time and culture.
Both are required in our common life and if subjectivity or objectivity are missing, then we are incomplete.
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