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Moses and the Ten Commandments

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Matt Stone

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2011-10-18

Above is an illustration of Moses and the Ten Commandments by Barbara Goshu. If you like it you can check out more of her icon-influenced Christian art at her website. Here’s her bio: “Barbara Goshu is a Polish national, educated in the medieval city of Krakow. She studied graphic arts, painting and…
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Steve Jobs discovers iKarma

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2011-10-17

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Idiot America: How Entertainment Is Dumbing Us Down

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2011-10-08

Over the holidays I found myself reading Charles P. Pierce’s “Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free” and found a number of points of resonance with Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death”, though in somewhat more colourful language: “’Television is an emotional medium,’ Cline explains.…
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Stress, Relaxation and the Scriptures

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2011-10-07

Having been back at work a week now, my mind turns to stress and relaxation. The cruise we’ve just returned from in the South Pacific was wonderful. I had a “hot stone” massage on the first day which did wonders for all the built up tension in my neck and…
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Neil Postman: Amusing Ourselves To Death

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2011-10-06

I’ve been meaning to write on this for a while. If you haven’t read Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, you should. It’s full of insight. His reflections on how media shapes our thinking are profound, even though he wrote them over twenty years ago. I wanted to share a…
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Vision

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2011-10-04

I had a really psychadelic vison while I was meditating yesterday. It was like a huge eye, filling my field of vision, with the colours all falling towards the centre like a waterfall. No idea what it meant. But I felt content. The experience did however follow on the heals of…
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On Loving God

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2011-10-03

“We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. When one asks, Why should I love God? he may mean, What is lovely in God? or What shall I gain by loving God? In either case, the same sufficient cause…
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Revelation and Meditation

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2011-09-30

I was meditating this afternoon when it struck me that I should say something about the relationship between revelation and meditation, particularly from a Christ-centred perspective. Many forms of meditation, such as Zen and Yoga, focus on immediate experience. I have no problem with this, so far as it goes,…
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The Dance of King David: A Paining by Iliya Armanovsky

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2011-09-13

The Dance of King David by Iliya Armanovsky
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How should Neo-Anabaptists engage the world as the church?

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2011-09-04

I always appreciate a critique that gets me to think deeper about my own path. That’s what I found in James Hunter, Neo-Anabaptists, and the Ekklesia Project. After correctly differentiating Neo-Anabaptists from both the Evangelical Left and Evangelical Right, the auther sums up James Hunter’s critique as follows: I now…
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