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Why Are We So Busy? (Suspicions of Big Business III)

Lately, I’ve blogged about big business and some potential problems including the way people misplace their desire for fulfillment into corporate success and the cultural problems caused by large organizations. Now, I want to focus on the overwhelming busyness of […]

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Thoughts on Willard's Renovation of the Heart: The Tyranny of Emotions in Modernity

One of the key modern texts on spiritual formation is Dallas Willard's Renovation of the Heart. The first half of the book contains a meta-discussion of the

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Responsibility

A friend of mine once remarked that a certain paster at the Anaheim Vineyard is a very "responsible" man. I agreed, and thought nothing of it at the

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A Diet Craze and the Christian's Soul

Diets.  Self-help books.  Gym memberships.  Book lists.  Vitamins.  Miracle pills.  To modify an aphorism: “The road to depression (as well as bankruptcy and guilt) is paved with good intentions.  We’ve all been subjected to the litany of horrible infomercials, the […]

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Except by Prayer and Fasting

Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said,’Why could we not cast him out?’  And Jesus said unto them, ‘Because of your unbelief…howbeit this kind goeth not out except by prayer and fasting.” Matthew 17:19–21 The thirteenth lesson in […]

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quotations on wealth - Intelligent views on money from Jesus, Jeff Buckley, The Beatles, Plato, Dante Alighieri, Boethius, Aristotle, & Lucan

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven,

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Spiritual Disciplines - Part 2

My wife, Malea, is an excellent writer and thinker. She has spent much time contemplating and practicing the disciplines and here is what she thinks about them: Spiritual Disciplines: Described

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Hart on the Soul

Eastern Orthodox theologian David Hart on the Christian view of the soul: This is not to deny that, for Christian tradition, the soul transcends and survives the earthly life of the body. It is only to say that the soul, […]

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Interesting Reading for the Weekend

I know it's Easter today and I have a ton of Easter thoughts. However, as I was perusing the blogs tonight I found some very interesting reading. For

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What we Believe but cannot Prove

I found it from my brother, but only because I checked his site before A&L Daily. The Edge has released answers by predominantly scientific thinkers to their question,