An address delivered to the triennial conference of the International Council for Evangelical Theological Education
Sopron, Hungary
October 2009
A concert is a lovely thing.
Whether the Hong Kong Philharmonic touching just last week such disparate notes as those composed by the early classical Haydn and the late Romantic Berlioz or U2 rocking Chicago’s Lincoln Park or a band [...]
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Making Community Together: theological schools in concert
Posted in denkschrift, tagged theological education on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
cutting Rahab into pieces: O’Hare Airport, Tchaikovsky’s ‘Pathetique’ Symphony, John & Anita Nelson, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Costa Rica, and a traveling man’s soul
Posted in denkschrift, textures on September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ensconced in a miniscule workspace at one of O’Hare Airport’s Red Carpet Clubs, I come upon these words from Isaiah chapter 51 in my daily reading:
Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces,
who pierced the dragon?
Was it not you who dried up the sea,
the waters of the great deep;
who made the depths of the [...]
going away, coming home
Posted in denkschrift on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On my way home from several fabulous days of work in France and Germany, I happen upon Paul Theroux’s ‘The Long Way Home’ in the September 2009 issue of The Smithsonian.
Like me, Theroux is a ‘world traveler’. He has seen far more of it than I have and, it seems, has chosen to do so. [...]
discovering Martin Buber
Posted in denkschrift, reseña, terra buberiana on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a Christian student of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, I have for many years known Martin Buber only by the (often foot-noted) allusions to his work that frequent the pages of admiring biblical scholars. It has seemed an acquaintance that would almost inevitably but only at some future appointment become part of my life.
This summer [...]
don’t worry, be happy: John Piper, Desiring God. Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (Sisters: Multnomah), 2003
Posted in denkschrift, reseña, textures on September 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a college student, this slightly hard-headed reviewer found what he took to be the ‘C.S. Lewis cult’ to be trendy and off-putting, an observation that—for whatever historical accuracy it might have achieved—delayed his introduction into one of the great masters by three years or so.
Recently I became aware that I was avoiding reading John [...]
Wisdom’s demanding dialectic: Three things they will tell you that you must believe, and three other things you must believe instead
Posted in denkschrift, tagged biblical reflection, Proverbs, textures on July 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Wisdom’s demanding dialectic: three things they will tell you that you must believe, and three other things you must believe instead
Caribbean Graduate School of Theology, Kingston, Jamaica
Graduation 3 July 2009
The Governor General of Jamaica, The Most Honourable Sir Patrick Allen and Lady Allen, Senator Hyacinth Bennett, Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors, Rev [...]
babies, bathwater, and overweening simplicity: a response to Malcolm Webber
Posted in denkschrift on May 20, 2009 | 8 Comments »
The prevailing emotion that threatens my ambiguous relationship with equanimity as I read Malcolm Webber’s ‘Church-Integrated Leader Development’ is grief. I put things in just this way because there are other sentiments in play. An injured sense of justice, for example, and here and there a dollop of anger.
Yet grief is definitely the thing. I [...]
por invitación: ¡Así tratas a tus amigos…!, por Alexander Cabezas M.
Posted in denkschrift, tagged biblical reflection, textures, Exodus, reflexión bíblica, texturas, Éxodo on March 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Teresa de Ávila, fue una gran monja española, que se caracterizo por su vida de oración, y servicio en el siglo XVI. Se cuenta que cierto día viajando por una carreta tirada por bueyes, se cayó en un arroyo lodoso. Esa mujer devota y gentil, y fundadora de la orden de las carmelitas descalzas, [...]
on the making of sausage: John Adams (HBO miniseries)
Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged film, history, reseña on December 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
HBO’s magnificent screen portrait of John Adams and his fellows at a time when they were ‘winging it’—as historian David McCullough has it in HBO’s online site for the show—is simply brilliant film-making. It should be viewed in every classroom of the nation from which this reviewer ponders the deeply moving experience of having done [...]
PhDs in the pulpit: escaping the claustrophobia of academy-only expectations
Posted in clarity, denkschrift, missio dei, tagged theological education on December 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
We need thoughtful people in the pulpit.
Around the dinner table, a friend and his wife decry the insipid aridity of much that passes for Christian proclamation. These are not cultured despisers, these hosts of mine. They are decades-old friends who have been around the block and around the world, have celebrated life and been beaten [...]
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