Theology That Bites Back
Introduction: I recently worked through all of C.S. Lewis's short essays again, and as a consequence read his piece "Delinquents in the Snow" yet one more time. He wrote this piece after some ...
Authentic Ministry 18/Second Corinthians: Introduction: We are continuing our series in 2 Corinthians, but we are doing so mindful of this “giving season” that we are in. We are all active participants ...
“And this is why we now see the foolishness of dating things BCE (before the common era) instead of BC (before Christ), and CE (common era) instead of AD (anno Domini). Christian writers ought to fight with their editors for AD, and if they lose, they should then tell everyone that CE means ‘Christ’s Empire.’”
The Cultural Mind, p. 210
“We rarely notice our bones, and consequently, we rarely notice what is in them.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 209
From time to time I have confessed, or perhaps acknowledged would be a better word, and perhaps I am taking too long to come to the point, that I read dictionaries. I suppose you could categorize this as a guilty pleasure, but guilt is not really the right word. Sheepishness is more like it. Today’s …
I need to make a couple of corrections on things that I know I have said or written over the years, but am not exactly sure where and when. The first has to do with The Webster Bible, one put together by the great American lexicographer, Noah Webster. Many years ago, I had read somewhere …
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“We are amazed that doctors used to bleed their patients. But we then assume, as a rigid point of dogma, that we are doing nothing comparable. We believe, without reflection, that no on in the future will be amazed and appalled at what we are doing today.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 208
Prolegomena to the Introduction: Admittedly, this post is going to start out somewhat mildly. But I am simply setting the table, and boiling the water. What I am serving today is Kraft Mac and Cheese, ...
