Tag: God
Disciplined Decisions
Written by Charlie Herrick. Media by Stephen Hillrich.
24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the...
5 Reasons I Thank God for Potatoes
Written by Paige Farnworth | Media by Thomas Hajny
After reflecting on my Thanksgiving break , I have been deeply thinking about what I’m thankful for. I...
God Is A Zombie?
Written by Amanda Hermes. Media by Katie Wallace.
Most fairytales start with once upon a time, but this is not a fairytale. This is decaying...
Pope Francis and Evolution
Written by Andrea Martin, Media by Jack Wang
Last week Pope Francis made comments on the topic of evolution and creationism, declaring that the Big...
The Holy of Holies: The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
“Hoka Hey,” or “today is a good day to die”, is a phrase derived from the Lakota Indian tribe. This phrase, yelled by Lakota warriors riding into battle, typically connotes that if one dies, he can die peacefully because he has done everything in his ability to live through the battle and to see the next day. Consequently, death no longer fills the warriors with fear—quite the affect of a two-word phrase.
Diversity and the Church.
Diversity. Is something that is hard to pin down because few people can agree on a definition. To some, diversity has only to do with race, to others it means people may look the same, but enjoy or do different things. Each definition makes sense and they both begin to ask the question of how diversity is handled. As Christians, we are called to be one body in Christ, so is our body a model of acceptance?
Monk Ye See, Monk Ye Do: How to Pray like a...
In The Practice of the Presence of God, Brother Lawrence gets the ball rolling on the true purpose behind devotions, friendship with God. This handicapped, Carmelite monk desired above all things to establish and delight his soul in continual conversation with God- to pray without ceasing, to love God incessantly, and to give thanks for all things. Lawrence referred to this posturing of the soul as the practice of the presence of God.
Love Your Enemy: Why I am a Pacifist
n his 2011 Society of Vineyard Scholars presentation, Jev Forsberg states that “the topic of violence has been on the minds and in the hearts of Christ-followers since the climactic birth of the Christian movement: the violent death of Christ on a Roman cross.”
Christian Liturgy: Time of Perversion or Inversion?
In chapter nine of his work, Holy Things, A Liturgical Theology, Gordon Lathrop juxtaposes the Christian liturgy in light of society. In doing so, Lathrop demonstrates that Christian liturgy “wishes to call us to God and especially to God’s grace known in Jesus Christ, and wishes to propose that grace to this world”.[1] Simultaneously, however, Christian liturgy attempts to point us away from our meeting on Sunday and towards Christ in the everyday.
Christian Hospitality
This week in the senior capstone class, Foundations of Christian Doctrine, we discussed liturgy and society. Though many different trails can be explored when discussing liturgy and society, Dr. Hartley made a point in class regarding hospitality that lead me down my own trail.