Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
In confirmation class in 7th and 8th grade my pastor taught us physical positions that we could pray from. Keeling, prone, hands high, etc. The idea was that humans are peculiar. It isn't enough to give mental assent to something, but rather for full effect we need to commit our ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
I am kicking around doing my master's thesis on this issue and have been thinking about it for some time. Most recently I was led to reflect on it when I noted a pattern among some of my friend's experiences as well as my own. Namely, our parents ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
In a few previous posts I have discussed the violence in Kenya, noting in particular the burning of a church with dozens of people purposefully trapped inside. The news reported the burning and other violent acts but it was surprisingly quiet about who was engaging in the violence and precisely ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Last week I posted some information about the Kenya church burnings. I wondered what the point was in burning down churches because of an election controversy, and in particular burning them with dozens of people trapped inside. I have sought more information and haven't received it, but my ...
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
It is sad, really, that I was first made aware of the trouble in Kenya by hearing the news- and terrible news it is- that a church was burned down in Kenya with some 35 people trapped inside. Deliberately trapped and deliberately burned to death.
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I'm really confused about why ...
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
C.S. Lewis wrote,
There is no need to be worried by facetious people who try to make the Christian hope of heaven ridiculous by saying they do not want to spend eternity playing harps. The answer to such people is that if they cannot understand books written for grown-ups, they should ...
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