Precision, Truth, Humor, and Conviction :: Thank You, Stanley Hauerwas

It is no secret that among my favorite theologians Stanley Hauerwas stands tall.  My closest friends who have read Hauerwas’s “work” recognize how my theology has been influenced by his thought, his cantankerousness, his wit, and, most importantly, his love for the church.  I am not just a “fan” of Hauerwas.  I have done my [...]

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Book Reaction :: Brian McLaren’s Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices

Published this year, Brian McLaren’s Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Spiritual Practices marks the beginning of a series of books published by Tommy Nelson.  The Ancient Practices series will address disciplines such as fasting, contemplative prayer, fixed hour prayer, simplicity, spiritual reading, solitude, etc. for the purposes of transformation.  According to [...]

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On the Stack

I’ve got six books sitting on the stack that I’ll be tackling soon.  Here’s the list.  If you’d like to see a review of one of these works sometime during the summer let me know.  I’ll be posting thoughts from these works as I move through them.

Shuck and Stroup — Escape into the Future: Cultural [...]

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Thinking Poetically

But must I needs want solidness, because
By metaphors I speak; was not God’s laws
His Gospel-laws in olden time held forth
By types, shadows and metaphors?  Yet loth
Will any sober man be to find fault
With them, lest he be found for to assault
The highest wisdom.  No, he rather stoops,
And seeks to find out what by pins and [...]

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