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Relaxing into that Quality of Trust

This is an often quoted paragraph from Richard Lovelace’s Dynamics of Spiritual Life, which I am finally getting around to read, but its worth continually returning to and reflecting on: Only a fraction of the...

November 16, 2011No Comments

William Cowper’s Letters

When I was in Nashville for Dan’s funeral I stumbled across an old copy of William’s Cowper’s letters, which I’ve been reading a bit since. Cowper lived a very complex and tragic life. He went...

November 11, 201122 Comments

Dan Wise: February 7th, 1975 – October 24th, 2011

I am sitting here in the Nashville airport waiting for our flight back to L.A. Its been a blur of a week. This past Monday morning my brother-in-law Dan Wise died suddenly from cardiac arrest....

October 29, 20112 Comments

Elihu

I’ve always been fascinated by the character Elihu in the book of Job. What is his purpose in the overall story? Why is he even included? I don’t have total clarity, but in reading through...

October 14, 20112 Comments

Barth and Evangelicals

The theologian I’ve been engaging in 2011 is Karl Barth, and I’ve been chipping away at the Study Edition of Church Dogmatics off and on over the year. I’ve also finished his book on Anselm, which...

September 30, 20112 Comments

A Joyful Monday

Esther and I had a great time in Grand Rapids, Michigan over the weekend. Its a beautiful city in late September as the weather is cool and the leaves are just starting to change, and...

September 26, 20111 Comment

A Review of Orwell’s Review of That Hideous Strength

On August 16, 1945, just days after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, George Orwell, author of the dystopian novel 1984, wrote a review of C.S. Lewis’ similarly dystopian novel That...

September 19, 20111 Comment

The dry and choking places

Picking up in my previous post, here’s a crucial passage in the depiction of Mark’s redemption. Its such a creative literary presentation of the conviction of sin: There were no moral considerations at this moment...

September 16, 2011No Comments

Hugeness

One of my favorite things to do these days is to go on a long hike in the mountains with Sophia and listen to either That Hideous Strength or Till We Have Faces on my...

September 13, 2011No Comments