______________________________________________________ CC Photo by penguinland Truth be told, I left a great job 7 months ago to come to Iowa and start a new life as a married guy… The ...
___________________________________ The following is a work of satire. We are becoming the most aggressively inarticulate generation. We state our many opinions, without having a conviction worth giving our life to. ...
________________________________________ I have been reading, A Primer on Postmodernism by Stanley J. Grenz and have been fascinated by the evolution of philosophy from the Middle Ages through Enlightenment (Modernity) to ...
________________________________________ So. My family is more than likely a lot different than yours… Now, I’m not saying that my family is any more dysfunctional than yours, they are just dysfunctional ...
photo by Erik Johansson ____________________________________ Jesus seems to like metaphors and analogies, parables and stories… He used this phrase, “The Kingdom of God is like…” leading us to envision a ...
photo by Erik Johansson ____________________________________ An observation: when we talk of God to the unbeliever we most times talk of a formula in which a relationship can be rationally deduced ...
photo by pardeshi __________________________________ Jesus’ parables framed comedy as a communal exchange — as a shared relief at the passing of danger. In this sense, think of laughter as a ...
photo by asbestos __________________________________ Below is a list of parables that have tragic elements within – each has a trace of affliction, death, calamity, and unfairness told in allegorical fashion ...
Friday, I got the opportunity to teach a 90-min seminar on Story to Iowa’s Inter Varsity team in Cedar Falls, IA. The seminar was entitled, “Finding Story: In speaking, preaching, ...
The last of three ruminations on Frederick Buechner’s, “Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, & Fairy Tale.” Over the past few days, I’ve written on the Gospel as ...
