Awaiting Redemption
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

The Middle

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Shelly Rambo “The structure of trauma introduces what I refer to as the ‘middle’—the figurative site in which death and life and no lon...
Monday, February 9, 2015

The Gospel and Re-Framing Stories

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Shelly Rambo In  Spirit and Trauma , Shelly Rambo recounts a meeting with Paul Womack, a minister in New York and a military veteran wh...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Polanyi on the Head and the Heart

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Michael Polanyi “Proponents of a new system can convince their audience only by first winning their intellectual sympathy for a doctrin...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

What Is Truth? Michael Polanyi on Truth and Fruitfulness

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Michael Polanyi "But the long controversy between the two views shows also that this distinction is as difficult as it is vital. T...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Can We Be both Passionate and Humble about Our Beliefs?

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Michael Polanyi “So we see that both Kepler and Einstein approached nature with intellectual passions and with beliefs inherent in thes...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Which Comes First: The Solution or the Evidence?

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Michael Polanyi forgot more about math than I'll ever know. “Gauss is widely quotes as having said: ‘I have had my solutions for a ...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Subjectivity, Science, and Theology

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Michael Polanyi wrote about physics and used big words. “It is a travesty of the scientific method to conceive of it as a process which...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Does Theology Need Predictive Power? Polanyi on Personal Knowledge

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Michael Polanyi was smarter than you. “One may say, indeed, quite generally, that a theory which we acclaim as rational in itself is th...
Monday, January 19, 2015

Improving the Bible

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Erwin Raphael McManus In our preaching and teaching the Bible, do we ever feel the need to “clarify” the text to let people know that i...
Friday, January 16, 2015

Wounds, Scars, and Stories

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Erwin Raphael McManus I have scars on my abdomen from some major surgeries I had when I was a teenager. Sometimes people ask me about t...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

Love and Failure

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I was at a budget meeting the other night, and the elders were debating whether or not to fund one of my ideas. They were intrigued by it...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Hope, Dreams, Poverty, and The Gospel

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Is the gospel just about justification and the future, or does it offer us hope for real life? Does it offer us freedom? One pages 52-53 ...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Erwin McManus on Creativity and Feedback Loops

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On pages 45-46 of The Artisan Soul , Erwin McManus tells the story of playing basketball with a friend who was 6'6. Despite the guy...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Real Marriage by Mark and Grace Driscoll 2

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I will never forget the first Christmas that Brooke and I had as a married couple. I was in seminary and we were dirt poor. When our apartme...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Real Marriage by Mark and Grace Driscoll 1

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Over the next few weeks, I will be blogging through Mark and Grace Driscoll’s book, Real Marriage: The Truth about Sex, Friendship, and Lif...
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