The Crystal Cathedral is famous for its annual production of “the Glory of Easter,” featuring dangling angels, resounding music, and live animals. This year, they experiment with a new production along the same lines. The tagline is “Once upon all time,” and the show is called “Creation.” Despite the name, the story is a sort [...]
Archive for August, 2005
August 31, 2005
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The Crystal Cathedral’s “Creation” — Genesis on audio/visual steriods
By Keith E. Buhler in Reviews (Theatre), Science
August 31, 2005
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Katrina
By Matthew Lee Anderson in America, NewsThe last few days have been rather sobering. During spare minutes, I’ve found myself returning to the New Orleans Times-Picayune blog over and over, to read the latest updates about the conditions. I’ve been struck by the power and the limitations of blogging during this time. It was blogs that I read constantly on the [...]
August 31, 2005
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Comments change
By Matthew Lee Anderson in NewsDue to the increasing number of comment spammers (see below), I’ve turned on word verification for commenting. It’s a bit more hassle, but now that I’m receiving emails when there are comments (for quicker replies), I want to cut down on spam.
August 30, 2005
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Chesterton on Vows
By Matthew Lee Anderson in People and Relationships, QuotationsG.K. Chesterton, personal hero and eminently sensible man, applies his usual wit and insightfulness to marriage vows. A snippet: It is exactly this backdoor, this sense of having a retreat behind us, that is, to our minds, the sterlizing spirit in modern pleasure. Everywhere there is the persistent and insane attempt to obtain pleasure without [...]
August 29, 2005
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Drew Tretick
By Tex in Reviews (Music), UncategorizedI was recently introduced to the innovative and impassioned sounds of electric violinist Drew Tretick when a friend sent me a copy of his album “A Summer Serenade.” While I am in no way educated enough to comment on the capabilities or virtues of the electric violin, I can say that Drew is a musician [...]
August 28, 2005
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The Love of God
By Tex in Literature, Poetry, TheologyFrom Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s The Seraphim: Ador: Weep? Weep blood, All women, all men! He sweated it, He, For your pale womanhood And base manhood. Agree That these water-tears, then, Are vain, mocking like laughter: Weep blood! This Sunday I have been meditating on a proper response to the love of God. The phrases “the [...]
August 28, 2005
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Discovering Biblical Equality
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Reviews (Books), Theology, Theology (Gender), Theology (Hermeneutics)Like so many trips into the library, my recent excursion had me leaving with books I did not intend to find. In this case, I stumbled upon Gordon Fee’s Listening to the Spirit in the Text (review below). My real reason for perusing the BS 680 section of our beloved library was to find Discovering [...]
August 24, 2005
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Revamped WorldMagBlog
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Education, Outside Articles of InterestJoe Carter of evangelicaloutpost has added a number of “sideblogs” to World’s main blog. Included is zeitgeist, a blog that seems to simply be smart people opining about whatever strikes their fancy (isn’t that just most of blogging?). Biola’s own contribution is (of course) Dr. John Mark Reynolds, who has been less busy at his [...]
August 23, 2005
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A New Step Towards A Palestinian Dream
By Tex in News, PoliticsA little late on my new attempt to post every weekend, but this news was worth waiting for. It’s all over the internet and conventional news sources. The Gaza pullout is complete! What does this mean? First, it shows that Israel may, after all, be committed to ideals like justice and freedom and willing to [...]
August 23, 2005
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Reflections on my Past
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Life in generalOur wedding readings and homily pointed toward the future. The wedding celebration, however, was largely concerned with the past. Friends and family alike spent their time marvelling that I, who was such a precocious and irritating little child, actually grew up enough to get married and sharing stories of my youth. Not least among these [...]
August 22, 2005
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Book Review: Defeating Dark Angels
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Reviews (Books), TheologyNo area of Christian theology has been so sensationalized and misunderstood as demonology. What is for many Christians an embarrassing doctrine provides Hollywood with the occasional horror/action film—see The Exorcist or Constantine. Or rather, don’t see them. 20th century liberal Christianity, often due to an a priori rejection of the supernatural, explained New Testament exorcisms [...]
August 19, 2005
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Gay Marriage – Continued
By Andrew Selby in People and Relationships, PhilosophyThe last post about gay marriage generated some interest and some comments very much worth considering. I posted my response to those comments below: Alright. I found some time, so I’ll now respond to my gracious commenters – even if they didn’t get my name right. (cough…Lauren!) Jon, let me first respond to you. It’s [...]
August 16, 2005
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Letter to a Liberal Friend Explaining the Christian Position on Gay Marriage (as best I could)
By Andrew Selby in People and Relationships, PhilosophyI wrote the below to a friend of mine who identifies himself strongly as a leftists. He had originally asked me why I couldn’t be sensible about gay marriage as is the United Church of Christ. ___________________ As for your political comments/question, what you mentioned about the United Church of Christ was very interesting. It [...]