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Jun 25, 2012 Uncategorized

Church Practices and Public Life: A Global Feast

First in Comment’s “church practices and public life” series. The biblical story of food can be summarized in its chief emblem. The history of the world from creation to consummation is enacted in the process of making bread.

Jun 22, 2012 Uncategorized

The Possibility of History to Continue

“Progress” is the buzzword of our time. Anyone wondering what “progress” entails, but does not wish to wade through Kant, Hegel, or Nietzsche, will benefit from Tom Darby’s new and very funny novel, Disorderly Notions.

Jun 20, 2012 Uncategorized

Habits and Destiny

The long practice of Christian habits embeds faith, hope, and love so deeply within a human life that they can preserve our lives and our character and predict our future activity.

Jun 18, 2012 Uncategorized

A Ripple Effect of Good

SIX QUESTIONS . . . In founding Tegu, our goal was not simply to develop toys to delight and amuse children—though that is important—but to unleash a chain reaction of innovation on multiple levels.

Jun 15, 2012 Uncategorized

Economists and Table Servers

SIX QUESTIONS . . . Table servers advance God’s Kingdom from nine to five. If they don’t know this, they won’t be very good at it. They’re my audience, and my work is to show them that their work has eternal significance.

Jun 13, 2012 Uncategorized

Pursuing the Creative Office

Though coffeeshops and other places to work boast all kinds of energy-giving people around, and they can grant all kinds of inspiration, they also have . . . all kinds of people around.

Jun 8, 2012 Uncategorized

Get Your Hands Dirty: The Vocational Theology of “Luther”

There is little overt religiosity in Luther, but in the vicarious representative action of John Luther on behalf of others, we see a broken and fragmentary expression of common grace, God’s preserving work in the world.

Jun 6, 2012 Uncategorized

Patience, Trust, and Vision

SIX QUESTIONS . . . I have become convinced that the richness of the Christian faith can be embodied more fully and faithfully the more aware we are of theology, the traditions and importance of the church, and the significance of culture.

Jun 4, 2012 Uncategorized

What have future generations ever done for me?

Vast segments of Western culture no longer believe that life has an eternal aspect, and without that, there is no foundation for caring about future generations.

May 30, 2012 Uncategorized

Does a Family Road Trip Qualify as a Vacation?

There is an art to spending time in a vehicle together, figuring each other out on the fly, over thousands of kilometres.

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