For a man who occasionally becomes quite difficult to comprehend, Paul and his tradition have only the most modest tolerance for people who complicate straight-forward things. Indeed, a case can be made that Paul’s impatience with what he calls ‘false doctrine’ is intensely pastoral. He considers that endless debate about minutiae and the reflective traditions [...]
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complicating everything: Titus 1
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, textures, Titus on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
complicating everything: Titus 1
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, textures, Titus on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For a man who occasionally becomes quite difficult to comprehend, Paul and his tradition have only the most modest tolerance for people who complicate straight-forward things.
Jeremiah 29-30: making the best of Babylon
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Jeremiah, textures on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Jeremiah comes down to us not only as the weeping prophet. He is also a most realistic seer. The text allows us to intuit the presence of many prophetic good-timers, making their rounds in the streets of besieged Babylone and claiming against the evidence of the Babylonian troops just over the wall that Yahweh would [...]
sound doctrine: 1 Timothy 6
Posted in textures, tagged 1 Timothy, biblical reflection, textures on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For ears like the one attached to both sides of this blogger’s head, ‘sound doctrine’ has an unpleasant ring. The baggage is heavy. It seems the pious moniker of a narrow orthodoxy’s obsession with reigning in any inquisitive soul who might dare to follow the evidence where it leads. To a biblical scholar it hints [...]
when you speak to me: Twila Paris, True North
Posted in reseña, tagged Christian music, music, Twila Paris on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Twila Paris did not develop one of the most loyal fan bases in Christian music by blowing their ears off. If smoke is found on any stage on which Paris performs, it’s evidence of a short circuit rather than choreographed dry ice. Ms. Paris is not spectacular. She is merely very, very good, song after [...]
forgetting to ask: Jeremiah 1-2
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Jeremiah, textures on October 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
‘Where is Yahweh?’ It seems an obvious question to be heard on the lips of a people whose recent past Yahweh has permeated with redemptive actions on their behalf. When it is not heard, the prophet suggests, the silence is not only deafening but accusing as well.
a respite from battle: MKMen Cooling Aftershave Gel
Posted in paterfamilias, reseña, tagged reseña, style on October 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
On balance, it’s probably a good thing that the Historical Guy who decided we should be clean shaven was handed that decision. Otherwise, he might have got himself up to some even more lethal project. As things stand now, a man’s face is one of life’s great hostile environments, what with the scraping we do [...]
a Romantic sampler: High Romantics (Sunday Times Music Collection)
Posted in reseña, tagged Arensky, Camille Saint-Saëns, classical music, Delibes, Franz Liszt, Glinka, Grieg, Johannes Brahms, music, reseña, Sunday Times Music Collection, Tchaikovsky on October 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In the mid-90s, London’s Sunday Times produced a cheap CD series that managed to be both eclectic and excellent. In the ‘Classical’ branch of that series, High Romantics appeared, presenting tuneful offerings from Glinka, Arensky, Liszt, Saint-Saëns, Brahms, Grieg, Delibes, and Tchaikovsky. It all adds up to 43 minutes of fine listening, by about minute [...]
a Santa Claus-free zone: Top 25 Instrumental Christmas (Maranatha)
Posted in reseña, tagged Christmas, music, reseña on October 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Full product information for this item, together with my review, my rating of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at www.amazon.com. I kid you not, there is a market for gentle, Christmas instrumental music that preserves the religious nature of the holiday and does not overpower the motley collection of family, friends, [...]
a box just for wishes: Jim Croce, Time in a Bottle/Greatest Love Songs
Posted in reseña, tagged Jim Croce, music, reseña on October 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Full product information for this item, together with my review, my rating of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at www.amazon.com. Jim Croce’s music, the art of a master storyteller, lives decades after the fact and after the passing of this musician himself because of its profound and accessible human-ness.
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