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Spoken Prayer

2 Comments 29 July 2006

I’ve been reading through Scot McKnight’s recent book Praying With the Church. I am really enjoying his perspective on praying with a prayerbook or another tool at set times with the church. I came to faith in a church which valued what Scot calls praying in the church very much, but put little emphasis on [...]

Books, Web

Library Thing

2 Comments 21 April 2006

Thanks to Fletch over at Microbrewed Meditations, I came across Library Thing, an online book cataloging/rating/recommending/widgeting tool. It’s great! I especially like the blog widget, which some of you may notice is already at work in the left sidebar. Eric simultaneously found Library Thing yesterday… it was fate. Send to Facebook

Books

God’s Politics – Chapter 11

3 Comments 09 July 2005

Part III: Spiritual Values and International RelationsWhen Did Jesus Become Pro-War?Chapter 11 – Against Impossible OddsPeace in the Middle East After treading on thin ice in chapter 10, Wallis is back to his decidedly Christocentric self. The chapter on Middle East peace begins with the words from the Ash Wednesday liturgy. This chapter is the [...]

Books

God’s Politics – Chapter 10

5 Comments 03 July 2005

Part III: Spiritual Values and International RelationsWhen Did Jesus Become Pro-War?Chapter 10 – Blessed are the PeacemakersWinning Without War The theme of this chapter seems to be that war is an unwise and immoral choice in fighting the war on terrorism. Wallis’ focus is clearly on how to win the war on terrorism, but how [...]

Books

God’s Politics – Chapter 9

3 Comments 30 June 2005

Part III: Spiritual Values and International RelationsWhen Did Jesus Become Pro-War?Chapter 9 – Dangerous ReligionThe Theology of Empire In this chapter Wallis takes on US imperialism, or as some put it our ambition for empire. Not since Rome has a nation Lorded it over others as America does today. Add to this ambition language about [...]

Books

God’s Politics – Chapter 8

2 Comments 26 June 2005

Part III: Spiritual Values and International RelationsWhen Did Jesus Become Pro-War?Chapter 8 – Not a Just WarThe Mistake of Iraq Wallis relates something that archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams said while they were on a panel together. Williams said (quoting psychologist Abraham Maslow), “When all you have is hammers, everything looks like a nail.” *ding!* [...]