Thursday, January 10, 2013

Solitude and Spiritual Transformation

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I'm teaching Spiritual Formation to Payne Theological Seminary M.Div. students this week. I'm sending them to pray for an hour...
Wednesday, January 09, 2013

The Human Soul is the Arena Where the Destinies of People are Determined

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Seed & leaf, on snow in my backyard I'm holding in my hands the book Martin Luther King is said to have often carried with hi...
Tuesday, January 08, 2013

5 Data that Point to God

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Maumee Bay State Park, Ohio Linda and I arrived in Dayton a few hours ago. Tomorrow morning I'll drive 17 miles to Payne Theologica...
Monday, January 07, 2013

Death & Life After Death

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Green Lake Conference Center, Wisconsin Notes from "Death and the Afterlife," by Chad Meister (in T he Routledge Companion to...
Sunday, January 06, 2013

Colleges Aren't Teaching Students Much

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Monroe County Community College My friend Dr. Jim DeVries and I are reading Robert Arum's Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on ...

The God Who Became Dirty so Souls Might Be Clean

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Door, in Monroe Here's a nice piece - Jesus was a dirty, dirty God  - on cnn.com.

In God's Presence there is Healing for the Troubled Heart

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Del, Sallie, Adrienne, and Julie at our Home Group Yesterday I did the funeral service for my father-in-law Del Lawson. Thank you to al...
Friday, January 04, 2013

The Triumph of the Therapeutic in Western Culture

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Linda, on the beach I am a big fan of U of Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith. I read Soul Searching years ago and discovered, to ...
Thursday, January 03, 2013

Following Jesus in a Post-Christian Culture

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Christianity is no longer "the air we breathe" in America. This is not necessarily bad. American "Christianity" was n...

Humanists Absent in Times of Crisis

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My back yard In "In a Crisis, Humanists Seem Absent," Samuel Freedman asks "Where were the humanists? At a time when th...