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Objective Evaluation of the Arts

Posted in Books, Philosophy & Politics, tagged , , , on July 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »

For a long time now, I’ve been looking for the secret criteria by which the arts may be judged objectively. Something in me cries out for a scientific, incontrovertible methodology that can calculate numerically the distance in greatness between Beethoven and the Beastie Boys. Maybe that means I have no business dabbling in the arts. [...]

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Redeeming the American Mind

Posted in Books, Philosophy & Politics, tagged , , , on January 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »

A Proposed Evangelical Response to Allan Bloom’s Acclaimed Essay Though more than twenty years have passed since The Closing of the American Mind was first published, Allan Bloom’s critique of the American intellectual and moral condition continues to prick the consciences and imaginations of many serious minded people. And while there are various ways in [...]

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Follow Up on Revolution in World Missions

Posted in Books, Theology & Spiritual Life, tagged , , , , on October 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »

If you read my review of Revolution in World Missions and are thinking about giving to GFA, I would strongly encourage doing a little research first. Here are several articles published by Christian newspapers (at least two in India) that

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Revolution in World Missions

Posted in Books, Theology & Spiritual Life, tagged , , , , on September 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I have to confess, I put off reading Revolution in World Missions by K.P. Yohannan for quite a while because the cover gave me the impression that it was one of those books that would make me feel guilty for not being as radically sold out for Christ as I could be. After signing four [...]

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Desiring God

Posted in Books, Theology & Spiritual Life, tagged , , , on June 27, 2008 | 15 Comments »

I have a confession to make. I have committed the sin condemned by Paul in the beginning of the first of his extant letters to the Corinthians—namely, the prideful competitiveness that leads to divisive arguing over

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Life Together

Posted in Books, Theology & Spiritual Life, tagged , , on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s handbook on Christian community, is brilliantly comprehensive, yet humbly concise at the same time. Though only five chapters, it contains enough theology and practical instruction to help guide any aspiring assembly till Christ’s return. It is also filled with great insightfulness and reverence rare for modern books. Despite its reliance upon [...]

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Blue Like Jazz

Posted in Books, Theology & Spiritual Life, tagged , on February 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Is Blue Like Jazz emergent? For some, this question makes absolutely no sense; it just sounds like a late Beatles’ song title. For those who are familiar with the whole emergent “conversation”/controversy, it may seem compelling. However, the answer is that it doesn’t matter. (How emergent of me…). What matters is the fact that

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Making Room for Life

Posted in Books, Theology & Spiritual Life, tagged , , on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In Making Room for Life, Randy Frazee argues that “the biggest challenge for the church at the opening of the twenty-first century is to develop a solution to the DISCONTINUITY and FRAGMENTATION of the American lifestyle.” One of our most pressing needs is to blend the myriad worlds in which we live into one cohesive [...]

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