The Lord Jesus is a doctor to the sick, a friend to the outcast. His gospel is food to the hungry and life to the dead. Would the same Lord reserve the joy of singing for the happy and the contented and the certain?
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We are not worthy of the potato
Like Mephibosheth, Christians will dine at the King’s table out of an overflow of his kindness. Every earthly meal is a mere foretaste.
Home, rejoicing
Of course we rejoice to return there, but importantly home is also where (wherever?) others rejoice to receive us.
Timing the Reads?
What Augustine found in the Neoplatonists I have glimpsed in the New Statesman, but like him I do not find there anyone who says ‘Come to me, you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.’
The nth greatest story ever told
H. Richard Niebuhr famously summarised liberal theology as describing how ‘a God without wrath brought men [sic] without sin into a kingdom without judgement by the ministration of a Christ without a cross.’ I have no interest in engaging in theological polemic here. I raise this rather because Flynn’s narrative arc is the other way around – she describes wrath without a God, judgement without a kingdom, and, most disturbingly, a cross without a Christ.
The Making of the Western Minds
Readers unconnected to the Twittersphere may be unaware that, in a recent furore around eugenics, hardened New Atheist Richard Dawkins concluded “we could breed humans to run faster or jump higher. But heaven forbid that we should do it.” A quirk, perhaps, of language – Dawkins was hardly begging a God in whom he doesContinue reading “The Making of the Western Minds”
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