Anyone have an extra copy of Karl Barth’s Kirchliche Dogmatik? I’d love to have a hard copy of I/2 and II/2, especially.
Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing you have made, and you forgive the sins of all who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of you, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
God is the true Social Justice Warrior. Isaiah 58:6-7.
Just finished my first shovelglove workout! www.shovelglove.com
The Art of Manliness interview with Alan Jacobs is out! @ayjay podcasts.apple.com
“As Americans, we should be frightened — deeply afraid for the future of the nation. When good men and women can’t speak the truth, when facts are inconvenient, when integrity and character no longer matter, when presidential ego and self-preservation are more important than national security — then there is nothing left to stop the triumph of evil.” William McRaven: If good men like Joe Maguire can’t speak the truth, we should be deeply afraid - The Washington Post
Interesting to consider the resonances between Christian theology and the definitional contours of critical theory. In its attempts to describe who God is and what God has done on the basis of God’s self-revelation, theology is explanatory, normative, critical, practical, and self-reflexive. (See the article on “critical theory” in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy.) Theology is thereby free to affirm what it deems to be the correct insights of other critical theories, without bowing the knee to any critical theory in particular, because it is its own kind of critical theory. Reminds me of the relationship between theology and metaphysics in Robert Jenson’s description of theology as “revisionary metaphysics.”
“As best you can, online and off, avoid the people who fan flames.” - Alan Jacobs (@ayjay), How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
Living my best life now and using the Freedom app to cut down my potential Twitter exposure to a 30-minute time slot each day. Grateful to @ayjay for the idea!
I might give Noom a try for weight loss goals. Anyone have thoughts on whether or not it’s effective and worth the price?
Checking to make sure my micro.blog is still cross-posting to Twitter.
What are your favorite Christian publications to read?
I can’t tell. Is the swamp drained yet? smh
Hopping back on the #BuJo bandwagon! #bulletjournal
This is the “Führerprinzip,” “Leader principle.” > “The president and his staff have increasingly equated disloyalty to him with disloyalty to the nation.” A Presidency Increasingly Guided by Suspicion and Distrust - The New York Times
Bonhoeffer, DBWE 16:640:
The word “God” is nothing at all; the name “God” is everything. ¶ In many ways people today perceive that God is not only a word but also a name. For this reason they like to avoid saying “God” and instead say “the Divine,” “Destiny,” “Providence,” “Nature,” “the Almighty.” To them “God” always sounds almost like a confession. They do not want that. They want the word but not the name; for the name entails an obligation.
Alright, here goes try #2 to permanently delete my Twitter and Facebook accounts!
If you’re looking for free online resources to help you study the Bible, then The Bible Project bibleproject.com and NET Bible netbible.org are great places to start!
If I could just have a 60- or even 30-minute conversation with Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, this “Barth, Bonhoeffer, and the Bible” dissertaion would be SO much easier…
Anyone have access to a copy of Geffrey B. Kelly’s 1970 dissertation presented at the Université de Louvain, “Bonhoeffer and Barth: A Study of the Interaction with Karl Barth in Bonhoeffer’s Theology of Revelation”?
These conspiracy theories are rival eschatologies. They need to be called out as such by the Christian Church as it proclaims true eschatology in the good news that Jesus Christ is king. ‘QAnon’ conspiracy theory creeps into mainstream politics
Christians, for Christ’s sake (literally), let’s turn off our far-right and our far-left news sources. Turn off FOX and Breitbart, MSNBC and Slate, etc. etc.
I needed this reading this evening.
Lord, have mercy. What if we all just quit the internet and prayed the Litany daily until 2021? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/…
I’m clinging to this “prayer before study” these days.
