Shhh! A whole lot of Christians are quietly afraid that someday, someone will ask them about their faith. We need some outline points, like the pegs on a coat rack. No hooks and you just have a pile of stuff on the floor. Add a row of pegs and you can hang up a whole lot of stuff […]
Found on the Church Doorstep — Wishing for St. Francis of Assisi
As I was leaving church with my son I looked down. There was something shiny on the ground. A bullet casing. Someone had shot a bullet and this bit of brass landed here. On the doorstep of my church. Where we worship the Prince of Peace. Where we learn that those who make peace are blessed. I put […]
How Do You Know That? (Heidelberg Catechism Q. 19)
You and I were born in an age shaped by scientific thinking. We find it hard to accept that there might be ways of knowing other than through science — the proof of hypotheses through experimentation. It is a sort of cultural mythos, this devotion to science. It is a religion without a temple. We […]
What Is and Isn’t Reformed Theology? (Heidelberg Catechism Q. 23)
When I teach about Reformed theology, I often start by showing a pyramid of three layers. Like that one on the far end of the row of Queens Pyramids at Giza. Just picture the bottom layer a lot thicker. The big foundation layer is core Christian teachings — Things like our understanding of God — the […]
Finding a Life-Giving Approach to the Bible (part 7, conclusion): Process & Goal
And so we come to the end of the classic book on lectio divina by Guigo II (d. 1188), The Ladder of Monks. The idea of a ladder is key to understanding his approach to the Bible — despite all the food metaphors I’ve noted in these posts. He might have done better still with a spiral […]
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