How I Read George MacDonald
He teaches a way of thinking, not what to think; a way of imagining, not what to imagine. Above even his theology lies a fairy tale.
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He teaches a way of thinking, not what to think; a way of imagining, not what to imagine. Above even his theology lies a fairy tale.
Are we being gradually unveiled? Many think so! But there’s more to the story… Out with the old mumbo-jumbo, in with the new.
On patching cloth and preserving wine… Far more than a tidy analogy for ecclesiology and revivalism!
Metanoia vs. Re-penance. The misuse of “repentance” has gone on far too long. What does it really mean, and where did the word come from?
I just realized that this week marks exactly 20 years since I defended my master’s thesis. Dang, time flies. But I remember as if it was yesterday, because my committee chair opened with a question that immediately caught me off guard.
A wonderful book giving hope and putting in context the history of beliefs around universalism, reconciliation, hell, judgement and redemption.
Had you ever just had to have, wanted to have, something in your garden that–against all collective global gardening knowledge and wisdom–doesn’t grow where you garden?
Meditation on Ents as a way of listening. “Few of us are left now. Sheep get like shepherd, and shepherd like sheep, it is said…”
A book that throws a bomb into the religious chicanery of modern evangelicalism and brings back to the scandalous message of grace and the finished work of the cross.
Robert Capon on creation: So they all pitched in, and after supper that night, the Son and the Holy Spirit put on this tremendous show of being for the Father. It was full of water and light and frogs; pine cones kept dropping all over the place and crazy fish swam around in the wine glasses.
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