When peering through the window of a train car at a fascinating, fast-changing, complex landscape, you can’t make the train slow down for a bit of gawking. The best you can ask for is a window with minimal smudges. That’s what you get when contemplating the velocity of change in China today through the lens [...]
Archive for October, 2008
reviewing ChinaSource: perspectives and analysis for those who serve China
Posted in missio dei, reseña, tagged China, missio dei on October 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
common cause: Hebrews 2
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Hebrews, textures on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The New Testament ‘book of Hebrews’ places one layer of allusion and quotation upon another, creating a dense matrix of historical echos and interpretative nuance as it contemplates the Jesus Thing. At the animating core of this document lies the conviction that God’s actions in history and especially in the life, death, and resurrection of [...]
a singular touch of grace: Sting, Brand New Day (1999)
Posted in reseña, tagged music, reseña on October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Despite criticism that it is eclectic to the point of distraction (sometimes expressed as `Has Sting run out of ideas?’), Brand New Day contains several of the finest songs of the entire final decade of the twentieth century. Sting being Sting, you wade through a couple of dry stretches on this album as on almost [...]
shrewd like those other guys: Luke 16
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Luke, textures on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Seldom does one of Jesus parables defy quick comprehension like the one we traditionally have called ‘the parable of the shrewd manager’. Fallen into a crisis that threatens his and his family’s future, this otherwise uninspiring man pulls off a sleight-of-hand that raises the admiring eyebrows even of the boss who had just fired him. [...]
sensible: Alexandre Desplat, The Queen (motion picture soundtrack)
Posted in reseña, tagged music, reseña on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Alexandre Desplat’s minimalist score fitly accompanies the taut psychological drama that is the 2007 motion picture that imaginatively chronicles the tectonic shifts that were occurring in the royal family behind closed doors in the wake of Diana’s tragic death in a Paris highway tunnel. Alternately brooding and winsome, Desplat produces a soundtrack that underscores Queen [...]
the horror, the cost, the dignity: James Bradley, Flags of our Fathers
Posted in reseña, tagged Americana, reseña, war on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
James Bradley has written a loving chronicle of a battle of almost unimaginable horror that took place on the unlikely volcanic island that has embedded its name in military and our national history as ‘Iwo Jima’. His father was caught up in the events that unfolded on that diminutive, blood-soaked island, but also in the [...]
unable to speak: Jeremiah 1
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Jeremiah, textures on October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the biblical narratives of a prophet’s calling to his particular function, the individual in question is usually summoned against or independently of his own will. He never asks for the job, never finds himself in some sublime moment reveling in the fulfillment of his long-time dream to become a prophet. Moreover, such passages frequently [...]
Sammy unveils new moves: the story of a Rescued Rhodesian Ridgeback
Posted in fauna, tagged fauna, Sammy, Story of a Rescued Rhodesian Ridgeback on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I returned last evening from London to find Sammy racing up and down the basement steps beside Rosie, eager to greet his returning master. ‘Racing’ in this context begs some qualifiers. Perhaps ‘moving briskly’ is more to the point. No longer plagued by the fear of falling down stairs, he moves up and down them [...]
the quiet life: 1 Thessalonians 4
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, textures, Thessalonians on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The apostle Paul is often taken for a fire-breathing apocalyptic with little time for this present world as it sulks and struts in its overwheening vanity. Such a view misses both his respect for our realia as the very texture of creation and his counsel to the Thessalonians to lead a respectably independent life: Aspire [...]
Love in the time of missiologists: why you can’t not hope (Paul and Eva Toms Lectureship in Global Christianity, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, October 9, 2008)
Posted in denkschrift, missio dei, tagged missio dei on October 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The incomparable Colombian novelist Gabriel García-Márquez is a master of the evocative book title. From Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) to El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (The Coronel Has No One Who Writes to Him) to Crónica de una muerte anunciada (Chronicle of a Death Foretold) to El amor [...]
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