January 2013
6 posts
“To say that humans are, at root, lovers, is to emphasize that we are the sorts...”
– James K.A. Smith Desiring the Kingdom p51
“What we do (practices) is intimately linked to what we desire (love), so what we...”
– James K.A. Smith Desiring the Kingdom p70
“Habits are inscribed on our heart through bodily practices and rituals that...”
– James K.A. Smith Desiring the Kingdom p58
“[Habits are learned, yet] can become so intricately woven into the fiber of our...”
– James K.A. Smith Desiring the Kingdom p56
“What if education was primarily concerned with shaping our hopes and passions -...”
– James K.A. Smith Desiring the Kingdom p18
“The practices that are part and parcel of cultural institutions aim to point our...”
– James K.A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom p72
“True freedom is a gift of grace given by the one who is in fact Lord; that gift,...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks p141
December 2012
10 posts
“The idea that there is no third way between agnostic pluralism and a despotic...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, A Word in Season, pp 169-170
“… it is a striking fact that nowhere in the letters of St. Paul does the...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, A Word in Season p151
“In the end, the society we have is not a secular society but a pagan society, a...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, A Word in Season p150
“An education, then, is a constellation of practices, rituals, and routines that...”
– James K.A. Smith Desiring the Kingdom p26
“The family is the cornerstone of our society. More than any other force it...”
– Lyndon B. Johnson, Commencement Address at Howard University: “To Fulfill These Rights” June 4, 1965
“To this end [to learn and grow, to work and share in society, to develop their...”
– Lyndon B. Johnson, Commencement Address to Howard University 1965
“Because our hearts are oriented primarily by desire, by what we love, and...”
– James K.A. Smith Desiring the Kingdom p25
“So what would it take to resist the alluring formation of our desire - and hence...”
– James K.A. Smith Desiring the Kingdom p24
November 2012
2 posts
“By looking carefully at the ways we mediate moral understanding to children, we...”
– James Davison Hunter, The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil p9
October 2012
5 posts
“If vain spending of time, idleness, unprofitableness in men’s places,...”
– John Owen, Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers, p56
“If we neglect to make use of what we have received, God may justly hold his hand...”
– John Owen, Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers, p54
“Every unclean thought or glance would be adultery if it could; every covetous...”
– John Owen, Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers, p53
“When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than...”
– John Owen, Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers, p50
“Now, it being our duty to mortify, to be killing of sin while it is in us, we...”
– John Owen, Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers, p51
September 2012
5 posts
“The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in...”
– John Owen, Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers, p56
“Do you mortify;
do you make it your daily work;
be always at it while you...”
– John Owen, Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers, p50
“It makes no small difference, then whether we form habits of one kind or of...”
– Aristotle, Ethics, Book II
“In the Greek Old Testament there are two words used to refer to the congregation...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, A Word in Season pp51-52
“There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence…activism and overwork....”
– Thomas Merton
May 2012
17 posts
“Even if it is a very small congregation, and perhaps even especially when it is...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p87
“The most important contribution which the Church can make to a new social order...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p85
“If we accept the model of what I have called a committed pluralism, we can look...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p85
“It should become part of the normal work of the Church to equip its members for...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p84
“If I understand the teaching of the New Testament on this matter, I understand...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p82
“We have to reject ideologies which give to particular elements in God’s...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth pp80-81
“The idea that if economic life is detached from all moral considerations and...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p77
“The ideology which we have to recognize, unmask, and reject is an ideology of...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p75
“The proper freedom of the Church is inseparable from its obligation to declare...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p71
“… life moves toward its proper completion not automatically by any purely...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks p93
“The freedom of the Church from control in spiritual matters by the state is an...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p70
“When we affirm, as the Church must do, that freedom is not the natural endowment...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p61
“A society in which any kind of nonsense is acceptable is not a free society. An...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p60
“Both objectivism and subjectivism are ways of evading personal responsibility...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p59
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“[J]ust as we refuse to believe that there is no third possibility between a...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth pp58-59
“There can be no true evangelism except that which announces what is not only...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p52
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“Our problem is that most of us who are Christians are brought up bilingual. For...”
April 2012
17 posts
3 tags
“[To indwell the gospel story] it is clear that this “indwelling”...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth pp47-48
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“We have to call all people to come this way with us, for we shall not know the...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth pp34-35
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“Jesus is Lord not only of the Church but of the world, not only in the religious...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p34
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“There is no absolute separation of faith and knowledge. We believe in order to...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p33
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“The effort to know the truth involves struggle, groping, feeling one’s...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p32 