Goheen & Bartholomew: Story & Biblical Theology [90KB PDF]
NT Wright on the tsunami [via Kevin B]
Annie Dillard biography
Andrew Basden: IT professionals on Judgement Day
Eugene Peterson: Living into God’s story
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That biography makes me want to read the book more.
I’m probably bringing coals to Newcastle in quoting Annie Dillard – but I just quoted her to a friend in a letter – it’s about the church. She writes “On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside of the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of conditions.” Then she looks at the church and asks, “Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, making up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies hats and straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping god may wake someday and take offence, or the waking god may draw us out to where we can never return.” Cynical, but I have to admit that she hits the bull’s-eye when it comes to typical worship services in my denomination. “A high school stage play is more polished than this service we have been rehearsing since the year one. In two thousand years, we have not worked out the kinks. We positively glorify them. Week after week we witness the same miracle: that God is so mighty he can stifle his own laughter. Week after week, we witness the same miracle: that God, for reasons unfathomable, refrains from blowing our dancing bear act to smithereens.” (Teaching a Stone to Talk)
yum. tasty reading