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Month: March 2011
Mar 30
Online Theological Discourse [3]: An Important Article at CT
This post is part of series we are calling “Ethics for Online Theological Discourse.” Here are the preceding posts: Intro; [1] the dangers of the screen-to-screen mode of communication; [2] Wisdom from the 17th Century. There is a great post at Christianity Today by John Dyer on the phenomenon of online theological discourse. The title…
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Mar 29
God & Natural Disasters
The Ooze was kind enough to accept a 3-part series I have written on God and natural disasters. It is an attempt in writing about the un-writable. Click below to read it… and know that I would love your feedback!
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Mar 28
Online Theological Discourse [2]: Wisdom from the 17th Century
This post is part of series we are calling “Ethics for Online Theological Discourse.” Here are the preceding posts: Intro; [1] the dangers of the screen-to-screen mode of communication. So Andy was kind of enough to invite me to blog with him. I’m grateful. I tend to be an all-over-the-place thinker, so the subjects of…
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Mar 28
Ethics for Online Theological Discourse [1]: Screen to Screen vis-a-vis Face to Face (notice the wordplay?)
This post is part of series we are calling “Ethics for Online Theological Discourse.” Here is the preceding post: Intro. Since the release of Rob Bell’s video promoting Love Wins, cyberspace has been flooded afresh with a great deal of uncivil discourse. Since so much theological dialogue is now taking place online, Christians need…
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Mar 28
New Contributor to this Blog
I am so pleased to announce that this blog now becomes a joint effort. My dear friend, Joel Busby (whom I have quoted a few times already), will now begin writing posts as well. I am looking forward to learning from his wisdom and insights.
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Mar 28
More from Barth on Church Unity
In a recent post I commented on a couple of lectures Karl Barth made for the 1937 Edinburgh World Conference on Faith and Order. These lectures are published in Karl Barth, The Church and the Churches (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2005). Here are a few more thoughts…. In his third lecture, “The Union of the…
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Mar 26
Ethics for Online Theological Discourse (Learning from “the Rob Bell thing”)
COMING SOON: Beginning next week I will begin crafting posts centered around the theme “Toward an Ethic for Online Theological Discourse.” I have heard N.T. Wright call for some serious thinking about an ethic for blogging, a call that any of us who are presuming we have something to say publicly within the cyber realm …
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Mar 25
Barth on the “Unthinkable” Reality of Church Disunity
I am certainly concerned with ecumenism, that is, the collaborative efforts to bring about international church unity. But until reading a couple of Barth’s lectures published in The Church and the Churches [1], I lacked a proper sense of urgency. For Barth, there is only one Church. There may be a multiplicity of localized faith…
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Mar 23
Preaching on Pornography
This is a risky (and maybe risqué) post. Clicking “Publish” on this one is about to feel really awkard. But the church is plagued not only with pornography but also with a reluctance to discuss it. After almost 7 years in college ministry, I have found that struggling with porn is standard fare for most…
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