January 2009
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Peter Stallybrass: Making the most of the material... →
Jan 29th
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Crooked versus straight
Okay the last few school days have not been easy, I’m not going to lie- and for some reason, I jsut feel winded. Not so much academically winded, but emotionally winded, for some reason or other. I need a fresh Breeze. “And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be...
Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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The sequence of Chinese New Year food
Okay rehearsing it in my mind is the only way to get this done, since I haven’t been home for CNY in 4 years: Chinese New Year usually begins with the little goodies- of which my favorites are the pineapple tart, the coconut based cookies, the peanut cookies, the pecan cookies (from auntie florence), bakwa, and little sweeties (especially the one from kindergarten with little stars). Then...
Jan 26th
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“…hair powdered, cambric band with large costly band strings, velvet...”
– of John Owen’s fashion sense, correcting the misconceptions of Puritan fashion. Leland Ryken, Worldy Saints, p3.
Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
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The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, Is Ended →
Jan 19th
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Is Stephen Colbert serious about faith?
Perhaps the most surprising dose of faith served up on television emerges, not from the Trinity Broadcasting Network, but from Comedy Network’s “The Colbert Report.” The faux news show, which is one of the most highly viewed on the network, features comedian Stephen Colbert’s commentary on politics and current events, but includes a stronger dose of religion in a serious...
Jan 18th
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Stephen Colbert knows The Word! →
Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Spring Semester 2009.
Highlights for the days ahead, and prayer requests required (thank you thank you). 1.) Sing City 2! Sing, sing, sing, whole day sing. 2.) Finding a fourth class/or having it waived (please!) 3.) Ligonier Ministries National Conference, Moody Founder’s Week, gospelcoalition National Conference, Philadephia Conference on Reformed Theology. 4.) Graduate! 5.) 18th Century Orientalism: East...
Jan 16th
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"A New Kind of Urban Christian"... Tim Keller's... →
c.f. Two Cities, Two Loves: Christian Responsibility in a Crumbling Culture by James Montgomery Boice. (Intervarsity Press, June 1996).
Jan 13th
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"...He descended into hell, on the third day He... →
Jan 13th
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Theology of sucky things.
It would be remiss to NOT talk about the catastrophe of the driving events here in Philadelphia. In a funny way, it’s a time for me to consider my theology of sh*t happens. Do bad things happen to me when God is far away or if I’m consciously sinning against Him? I think that’s a funny thing to say, and yet that’s what we think. The converse is true too, do good things...
Jan 13th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
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Who Would Jesus Smack Down?
Lauren Greenfield for The New York Times By MOLLY WORTHEN Published: January 6, 2009 Mark Driscoll’s sermons are mostly too racy to post on GodTube, the evangelical Christian “family friendly” video-posting Web site. With titles like “Biblical Oral Sex” and “Pleasuring Your Spouse,” his clips do not stand a chance against the site’s content filters. No matter: YouTube is where Driscoll, the...
Jan 10th
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Worship By the Book
Don Carson is surely one of the best scholarly editors there are out there, and as a writer-thinker, he is absolutely, sublime. The book is a collection of essays from 4 brilliant minds, one Presbyterian, one Baptist, one Anglican, and one interdenominational seminarian. Carson opens the book with an excellent chapter on the construction of a theology for worship, and does two things before...
Jan 9th
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Wordsworth and the Ecclesiastical Sonnets
Surely it is not by chance that I came across you, and surely much more will be said about you.
Jan 7th
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Presidents Past, Present and Future
By The New York Times President Bush met in the Oval Office on Wednesday with President-elect Barack Obama and former Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. (Photos: Doug Mills/ The New York Times) President-elect Barack Obama met in the Oval Office today with President Bush and three former occupants of the White House: former Presidents Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and...
Jan 7th
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Se7en
I just ended up rewatching Se7en starring Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt and Kevin Spacey on netflix (bless them) and I have some thoughts about what the movie comes to represent. Sidestepping the medieval theology behind the 7 deadly sins, Chaucer and Dante (although I’m tempted to write about them too), the film gets its inspiration from New York City, the center of the universe, and I would...
Jan 6th
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“I. Learn these tunes before you learn any others; afterwards learn as many as...”
– John Wesley’s Select Hymns, 1761
Jan 6th