I just viewed the free 20 minute version of “The Secret” because I wanted to make sure that the entire movie would be worth purchasing; after only seconds I realized that this film does not even deserve to be purchased. Apparently “The Secret” is not supposed to be a comedy, but I that didn’t [...]
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Towards the closing of Stanley Hauerwas’ work, A Better Hope, my attention was grasped a short chapter on sickness and death. Hauerwas provoked me to consider why our Western construal of death so often discloses a desire for a quick and painless death. We desire a quick death to avoid consciousness of what is [...]
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I was reflecting on praise and worship today as my title, “on praise,” discloses. Most Christians that I know think worship is either singing with a certain ecstatic experiential expectancy (an unintentional alliteration). Worship is one of the things that has frustrated me since there are so many extremes. I appreciate liturgy now [...]
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