theology
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Faith without reason is not Faith (capital “F”). It is merely the baptism of an opinion. The ruined abbeys you find seemingly everywhere around Ireland are testimony to the excesses of Protestantism, which unfortunately tried to fix a church in desperate need of fixing by divorcing Reason and Faith. Luther and Calvin believed that Faith and Reason Read more
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For a brief period early in my life, I preached a Sunday sermon. When I left that vocation behind, I could not imagine ever wanting to write a “sermon” again. The current times have changed all that. In the face of Post-Truth, Donald Trump, FoxNews, and the intentional de-semination of un-Truth, the best defense we have to redeem ourselves Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on May 24, 2016 Though I have tried mightily over the years, a lifetime of reading, writing, studying, and thinking about God, Art, and the world have, alas, taken their inevitable toll on me. I have to confess that I Read more
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“In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.” (cf. Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. Letters and Papers from Prison.) Read more
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I have mentioned here before that one strategy I am trying to use to deal with the anxiety Trumpian Chaos causes is to avoid the 24-hour news cycle. This involves avoiding online doom-scrolling, social media, and not listening to or watching the news. My only news source currently is my local StarTribune newspaper that I Read more
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