I quite appreciated the thoughts that Simon posted many moons ago on this blog in which he basically told the world to sit down and shut up (that is a very rough and decidedly poor summary…I suggest you read the post). The main idea which I took away was that words abound in our culture, [...]
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Shabbat Shalom
Posted in Culture, Current Affairs, Faith, Theology, tagged christ, creation, Genesis, Judith Shulevitz, leisure, relax, relaxation, rest, Sabbath, Tim Keller, work, workaholism on May 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
“Dust and Light” is now a Dot-Com!
Posted in Current Affairs, tagged .com, address, blog, url on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hello to all! This is just a very brief announcement to let everyone know that “Dust and Light” now officially has its very own dot-com address! You can find us right here, at http://DustAndLight.com For any RSS feed subscribers, be sure and updated your readers. Most readers should make the change automatically, but not all [...]
The Ammunition of Reduction and the Humility of Christ
Posted in Culture, Current Affairs, Faith, Philosophy, Politics, Theology, tagged christ, Eric Holder, Formation, humility, Reductionism, Sloganeering, Stephen Carter on April 1, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I recently read an article on nytimes.com by Yale law professor Stephen Carter in which he laments the reductionist way in which recent comments by US attorney general Eric Holder were interpreted by the wider media. Holder, speaking to Justice Department employees for Black History Month, stated that “in things racial we have always been [...]
Biblical Inerrancy: From the Bible, or the Enlightenment?
Posted in Current Affairs, Faith, Theology, tagged bible, biblical, canterbury, christ, docetism, enlightenment, error, Evolution, galileo, historiogrophy, incarnation, inerrancy, inerrant, infallibility, infallible, inspiration, Jesus, parables, problem, qu'ran, revelation, science, synoptic, tales on March 14, 2009 | 17 Comments »
If you have not read my very brief “Primer on the Enlightenment,” I would recommend reading it as a starting point to this post. † Is God capable of using human mistakes for his divine purposes? This isn’t a rhetorical question. Stop and think about it for a moment. Can God use human errors to [...]
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