Tag: values
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A reminder to give up contempt
from an article in Plough on anger and contempt as treated by Dallas Willard – and other Christian authors
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Studying Ezra 10 1-12
Please be forewarned: people who are looking for a conventionally pious reading of Ezra 10:1-12, the text we are studying for Sunday, April 11, will not find it here. I think a lot is at stake in how we read this text, honestly. I think that if we accept the moral wisdom and the God-ordained…
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Reflecting on Micah 3 & 6
We are studying portions of the book of Micah, Micah 3:1-2, 9-12, and 6:6-8, for Sunday, March 22. We haven’t quite worked out how we will share our thoughts about the text with one another this week, but we are working on that. In the meantime, some notes on the text are here, and here…
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Questions for Reflection and Discussion – 2 Peter 1 1-15
We are studying 2 Peter 1:1-15 for Sunday, November 24. This is the opening text of a farewell address that encourages its early Christian audience to continue faithfully in sound teaching and practice, secure in the steadfast faith that Jesus Christ and his presence, rather than the world, is the ultimately permanent reality. [Here are…
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This is About This is Marketing
Godin, Seth. This is Marketing. New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2018. [An installment of the “Read Me” Project.] I love Seth Godin – by which I mean, I have a mile-high opinion of his work, appreciate his smart and helpful ideas, admire his passionate and disciplined commitment to excellence and his advocacy for good character, and especially…
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Justified Extravagance
Over dinner we talked about something that seemed incomprehensibly extravagant, unjustifiably expensive, to us. “I would never spend $100 on …” “Well, if you cared about fashion – not me, of course, but if you did …” “I do buy art; I suppose some people would think spending money on art is crazy …” “Some…
Matters of Interpretation 