May 2013
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“To learn to follow Jesus is the training necessary to become a human being. To...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, Working With Words: On Learning to Speak Christian (via catechumenate)
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“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together, pp.76f. Bonhoeffer adds that we must not disdain “God’s crooked yet straight path”. (via johnthelutheran)
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“It is in ordinary life that our stories unfold, tales of conceiving, bearing,...”
– Kathleen Norris - The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and Women’s Work.
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“If a friend has been really sick, and they have taken a long time off work and...”
– N.T. Wright (via achingforcomposure)
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“Paul saw that underneath all the dismaying problems of the Corinthians lay one...”
– Richard Hays Resurrection in 1 Corinthians | Faith Improvised (via mshedden)
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“Yet the noble despair of the poets
Is nothing of the sort; it is silly
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– W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety
(via coyotesnuggly)
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“To the question “Who is God?” the New Testament has one new descriptively...”
– Robert W. Jensen, Systematic Theology, 1:44. (via scottxstephens)
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“The vital necessity for tradition consists in the fact, as the old aphorism...”
– Josef Pieper, Tradition: Concept and Claim, 22 (via settledthingsstrange)
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“For Lewis, the Christian faith offers us a means of seeing things properly - as...”
– Alister McGrath on C. S. Lewis’s visual apologetics
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“I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it...”
– C.S. Lewis
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“When the prosperous man on a dark but starlit night drives comfortably in his...”
– Kierkegaard (via onancientpaths)
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“Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will only do harm to himself...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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“Every poet, consciously or unconsciously, holds the following absolute...”
– W. H. Auden, from The Dyer’s Hand (via ayjay)
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“The tragedy of the Reformation consists in the loss by both sides of the some of...”
– Jaroslav Pelikan, The Riddle of Roman Catholicism
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“In conclusion, I want to focus not on fury but on the remarkable capacity for...”
– R. R. Reno on eroding religious liberty in the US
(ht Mike Bird)
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C. S. Lewis lecture on Radio National
If you’ve been following C. S. Lewis Week at UWA, Scott Stephens’s lecture will be broadcast on Radio National’s Big Ideas programme this Thursday 16 May at 8pm.
An outline of Scott’s lecture here.
It will be also available for download from the Big Ideas page soon after.
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“The gospel spirit is a catholic spirit, a noble and unconfined benevolence, like...”
– Jonathan Edwards
(ht Ray Ortland)
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Billy: In my youth, I was much like you. Motivated. Headstrong. Wore silly little outfit. Even had a magic dog... All my life, I've beaten on evil creatures. But new evil keeps popping up. Kicking their butts was a hopeless effort!
Jake: What other way is there?
Billy: Nonviolently. Help people by being active in your community.
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“Remember how gainful and comforting it is to redeem the time. When heaven and...”
– Richard Baxter (12 November 1615 – 8 December 1691) was an English Puritan church leader, poet, hymn-writer, theologian, and controversialist.
(via jazzmachine)
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“Education as formation isn’t the sort of thing that stays neatly within the...”
– James K. A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom: Volume 1 (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
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“For our money is the Lord’s, however we may have gathered it. If we provide for...”
– John Chrysostom (via mshedden)
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“What happens in the body of Christ is precisely the opposite of separating the...”
– William Cavanaugh in A world without enemies: The Eucharist and the work of peace (via bethmaynard)
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“Lewis never used the jargon of his day and of his peers, and thereby avoided the...”
– David Mills (via wesleyhill)
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Keeping the C. S. Lewis Week magic alive
For those who enjoyed Scott Stephens’s visit to Perth for C. S. Lewis Week and want to keep the magic alive, or for those who weren’t able to make it and would like to get amongst it, here are some places to begin.
From the lecture
Scott’s lecture yesterday was based on C. S. Lewis’s book The Abolition of Man. Lewis says that schooling has created “men without...
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“The most interesting question about the Sermon on the Mount is not, Is this...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, Resident Aliens (via benghini)
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“The heroes of the radical movement are martyrs and missionaries whose stories...”
– Matthew Lee Anderson on ‘radical Christianity’ and echoes of the Holiness movement
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“If anyone has labored from the first hour, let them today receive the just...”
– St. John Chrysostom (via Carrie Frederick Frost on Twitter)
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“The fact that the all-powerful nature was capable of stooping down to the...”
– Gregory of Nyssa (via invisibleforeigner)
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“Suppose you find yourself, in the late afternoon, in one of the English...”
– James Wood: The Book of Common Prayer : The New Yorker (via bookofcommonprayer)
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“To what extent is society required to help facilitate the choices of radically...”
– Wesley Smith points out that ‘choice’ tramples freedom
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“‘Thy kingdom come, on earth as in heaven.’ That remains one of the...”
– N. T. Wright 