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Keith E. Buhler

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Fasting for Listening

"If I could prescribe one thing for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the word of God were proclaimed in the

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Fasting for Strength

"Don't give into some illusion and lose your power, but even if you have, if you've lost all will and control, they come back when

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Garfield Minus Garfield

Not as funny as would be (a much hoped-for) "White people like Garfield" post, But checkout the delightfully sad, somber, existential, anti-climactic commentary on modern life

Keith E. BuhlerEducation

Great Books Colleges and Universities

The Modern educational experiment has run its course. It does not seem to be working. Illiteracy is at an all-time high. High school completion continues to lower, especially in areas such as the inner city of L.A., where completion rates […]

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Fasting for Self-Control

When you're full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should, an ugly metal statue in place of the Kaaba. When you fast, good habits gather

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Evangelicals and the Early Church

Christianity Today asks the question: Why are evangelicals connecting with the early church as they move into the 21st century? "We confess that we have often lost the fullness

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Fasting For Joy

There’s hidden sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundboxes stuffed full of anything, no music. If the brain and belly are burning clean with fasting, every moment a new song comes out […]

Keith E. BuhlerEvangelicalism

Apostolic Hermaneutics

 “By expecting the Apostles to conform to modern assumptions we run the danger of missing the theological and kerygmatic richness of the Apostles’ use of the OT.” Continuing a line Matt started, here is an interesting article (about 25 pages) […]

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Do Not Question Authority

You might get fired. Or worse, Expelled.

Keith E. BuhlerPhilosophy

Early to Rise: Thoreau and Aurora

"All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise. To him whose elastic and vigourous thought keeps pace with the sun,

Keith E. BuhlerTheology and Practice

The Energy of God -- Aristotle, East and West

See David Bradshaw's provocative, pleasing, and thoroughly insightful essay on the contrasting reception of Aristotle's concept of "the energy of God." "The term

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Looking Back To See The Future

There are two ways to see the future. One is to receive a vision of all time and all reality. The other is to study the past for patterns that