biblical theo(b)logy

"It is not the critic who counts. It is not the man who sits and points out how the doer of deeds..."

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:37:05 -0400

““It is not the critic who counts. It is not the man who sits and points out how the doer of deeds could have done things better and how he falls and stumbles. The credit goes to the man in the arena whose face is marred with dust and blood and sweat. But when he’s in the arena, at best he wins, and at worst he loses, but when he fails, when he loses, he does so daring greatly.” (Teddy Roosevelt)”

- Brené Brown: Listening to shame | Video on TED.com

No doubt there always will be some people willing to do anything at all that is economically or...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:28:24 -0400

No doubt there always will be some people willing to do anything at all that is economically or technologically possible, who look upon the world and its creatures without affection and therefore as exploitable without limit. Against that limitlessness, in which we foresee assuredly our ruin, we have only our ancient effort to define ourselves as human and humane. But this ages-long, imperfect, unendable attempt, with its magnificent record, we have virtually disowned by assigning it to the ever more subordinate set of school subjects we call “arts and humanities” or, for short, “culture.” Culture, so isolated, is seen either as a dead-end academic profession or as a mainly useless acquisition to be displayed and appreciated “for its own sake.” This definition of culture as “high culture” actually debases it, as it debases also the presumably low culture that is excluded: the arts, for example, of land use, life support, healing, housekeeping, homemaking.

I don’t like to deal in categorical approvals, and certainly not of the arts. Even so, I do not concede that the “fine arts,” in general, are useless or unnecessary or even impractical. I can testify that some works of art, by the usual classification fine, have instructed, sustained, and comforted me for many years in my opposition to industrial pillage.

But I would insist that the economic arts are just as honorably and authentically refinable as the fine arts. And so I am nominating economy for an equal standing among the arts and humanities. I mean, not economics, but economy, the making of the human household upon the earth: the arts of adapting kindly the many human households to the earth’s many ecosystems and human neighborhoods. This is the economy that the most public and influential economists never talk about, the economy that is the primary vocation and responsibility of every one of us.

http://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/wendell-e-berry-lecture

North Bend. (Taken with instagram)

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:58:08 -0400

North Bend. (Taken with instagram)

Testing mobile upload

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:35:54 -0500

Testing mobile upload

Wendell Berry on love and redemption http://t.co/EfkCDX4r #Kindle

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:46:55 -0500

Wendell Berry on love and redemption http://t.co/EfkCDX4r #Kindle

USATODAY.com - Topography of religion

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:26:50 -0500

USATODAY.com - Topography of religion

Ira Glass on Storytelling (by David Shiyang Liu) Ira Glass is...

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:25:27 -0500

Ira Glass on Storytelling (by David Shiyang Liu)

Ira Glass is amazing, one of my favorite storytellers and the advice here is stellar. Very applicable for the amount of crappy preaching seminarians produce (and listen to from each other- seriously, there is nothing worse than preaching labs…)

HT: Sinnett

Murmuration (by Sophie Windsor Clive)

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:31:05 -0500

Murmuration (by Sophie Windsor Clive)

(via O Come O Come Emmanuel - The Sing Team on Vimeo)

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:46:12 -0500

(via O Come O Come Emmanuel - The Sing Team on Vimeo)

all of these ebooks are only 99 cents.

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:14:05 -0500

all of these ebooks are only 99 cents.

Failue fear and growth http://t.co/s8ZS7O7y #Kindle

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:54:03 -0500

Failue fear and growth http://t.co/s8ZS7O7y #Kindle

"The maid who sweeps her kitchen is doing the will of God just as much as the monk who prays — not..."

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:27:15 -0500

“The maid who sweeps her kitchen is doing the will of God just as much as the monk who prays — not because she may sing a Christian hymn as she sweeps but because God loves clean floors. The Christian shoemaker does his Christian duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.”

- Martin Luther (via utahjones)

http://t.co/oZWlTkcl #Kindle

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:24:50 -0400

http://t.co/oZWlTkcl #Kindle

Augustine on being made loveable http://t.co/WFsLkv97 #Kindle

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 05:17:17 -0400

Augustine on being made loveable http://t.co/WFsLkv97 #Kindle

From duty to desire http://t.co/1LiZbDNX #Kindle

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:19:31 -0400

From duty to desire http://t.co/1LiZbDNX #Kindle

http://t.co/8fxyDZm1 #Kindle

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 03:31:22 -0400

http://t.co/8fxyDZm1 #Kindle

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Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:17:43 -0400

Hooray for Shaun King!

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:06:00 -0400

Hooray for Shaun King!:

Stumbled upon this blog about a Pastor who followed all the “advice” to start a church (e.g. what is sexy and all show). The church blew up (700+ member) and then try to change the direction. He ultimately had to step down and leave. Shows a lot of integrity.

"Living makes dying worth it."

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:40:04 -0400

“Living makes dying worth it.”

- N.D. Wilson, Notes from the Tilt-a-whirl

Dostoyevskys living gospel… http://t.co/E6ndtjZE #Kindle

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:35:31 -0400

Dostoyevskys living gospel… http://t.co/E6ndtjZE #Kindle