We are a community called to taste and see the goodness of the Lord and know the depth and height and length and breadth of the love of Christ and enjoy God forever, and it’s through the community we are baptized into where that enjoyment is intensified.
Boss, Aaron Sorkin, and Alasdair MacIntyre on faith in our common life.
A proper conception of autonomy is a rich picture of someone standing back from his contingent preferences and seeing that the attainment of his own good is inseparable from the maintenance of the common good.
If Vidal spoke and wrote like a patrician, he was at heart a populist, and knew well enough there’s but one exit for us all, silently waiting to steal away every elitist pretension.
SIX QUESTIONS . . . But I guess what I want to cultivate in all of my work is a sense of the omnipresent reality and activity of God, who is present whether or not named, whether or not recognized, upholding the universe by the word of His power, and writing the grand Story of time and eternity.
How is one formed to become the kind of person Arpin-Ricci and Seay describe? I contend it is not by hard work, commitment, or more faith. I do think it comes through the power of the Spirit. But I’m waiting for someone to actually tell me how this works.
There is common grace and antithesis in New York City, and it is critical for the church in fulfilling the great commission to prepare her people to engage this fearfully and wonderfully made city.
“The people that I try to care for are also caring for me. I’m giving them something yes, but they are also giving me things and in this mysterious economy I’ve received far more than I’ve given. I don’t mean economically. I mean in the deeper terms of life.”
Blackberries are buzzing, politics is fast-paced, but are we actually performing? Could it be that even deep in the bowels of technological connectedness in the twenty-first century, politics still demands old-fashioned, one-on-one conversations for results?
If we are not exactly a people without a history, the history we do have does not generally excite or inspire us.
What we don’t tell about the flood tells us everything.
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