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ReShaping the Ashes

03 Jan

Sometimes blog posts [1] are written that really capture a Zeitgiest.  Don Dudley, over at You See Dry Bones captured a lingering and unarticulated feeling I had about all my friend’s Twitter feeds, including my own.  Dudley points to the non-reformed favorite whipping boy, John “Jesus” Piper, transforming Twitter into a place of faux-holiness quotes:

They all turned into little John Pipers. I used to see real tweets from people.  Some would talk about their latest blog posts or posts they found interesting. Others would talk about their recent studies in Scripture or what books they were reading. Many of them were fun and humorous.

Now many of them are just pretentious and therefore obnoxious.

Once the nature and style of Piper’s 140 characters or less were released, people started to mimic him.  Gone are the “fruitless” tweets about how their toddlers did something cute or about the interesting things that happen day-to-day.  It has been replaced with numerous (and annoying) pithy statements and faux-holiness. How do I know these are “faux?”  Because most of you changed over-night. While it takes a lifetime to be sanctified, it only took your Twitter accounts 24 hours.

modern31To be honest, Don is a fan of Piper and he says that it is not Piper that is annoying, it is the waves of people that have transformed their twitter feeds into a long series of pretentious quotes.  And in reality, JP did not start the trend, but perhaps was an easily identifiable tipping point. [2]

So, I’m guilty as hell of all of this.

I love to take notes through twitter.  It helps me capture what I am thinking at the moment, and in theory, opens it up to critique via my friends on Twitter.

So, what to do?

What I’ve done is open up an alternate Twitter account (thepomoxian) and plan to shuffle the notes over that way.  That way I’ll still have a record, and I’ll still have my friends converse with me.  I am trying to do the same with my theological and academic posts over at The Pomo Xian.  I’d like to make this place a place of family and friend posts.

So, if you’re interested, head on over to thepomoxian and The Pomo Xian and follow me.  I’d love to get your feedback. 

  1. P.S. Scott and Al Mohler, a blog is a syndicated site, a post is a syndication on such a site.  Please stop saying you wrote “a blog.” [↩]
  2. whaddup gladwell? [↩]
 
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Readings from This Semester:

20 Dec

Total Pages: 3834

Total Pages Read: 3047

Total Reading Percentage: 79%

I actually did most of my reading this semester.  My TRP is hindered mostly by two source books which contain a great many more pages than were assigned.  The only book that I really skimped on was Redeeming the Routines.  I just did not have the time/gumption quotient high enough. 

The majority of the books were excellent.  There were a some I disagreed with (looking at you, Moreland).  Sourcebooks will be sourcebooks.  Some were even from the Reformed side of things.

I’ll try, in the coming week, to give feedback on most of the works shown above and listed below.

  1. Redeeming the Routines: Bringing Theology to Life by Robert Banks
  2. Documents of the Christian Church by Henry Bettenson
  3. To Know and Love God: Method for Theology (Foundations of Evangelical Theology) by David K. Clark
  4. Character of Theology, The: An Introduction to Its Nature, Task, and Purpose by John Franke
  5. The Story of Christianity, Volume 1: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation (Story of Christianity) by Justo L. Gonzalez
  6. Beyond Foundationalism: Shaping Theology in a Postmodern Context by Stanley J. Grenz
  7. Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony by Stanley Hauerwas
  8. History of the World Christian Movement: Earliest Christianity to 1453 by Dale T. Irvin
  9. The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity by Philip Jenkins
  10. Readings in Christian Thought by Hugh T. Kerr
  11. Kingdom Triangle: Recover the Christian Mind, Renovate the Soul, Restore the Spirit’s Power by J. P. Moreland
  12. Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible by M. Daniel Carroll R.
  13. Naming the Elephant: Worldview As a Concept by James W. Sire
  14. Kingdom, Church, and World: Biblical Themes for Today by Howard A. Snyder
  15. Models of the Kingdom by Howard A. Snyder
  16. Kingdom Come: How Jesus Wants to Change the World by Allen Mitsuo Wakabayashi
 
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Why I love Hellboy

18 Dec

Not only because of the excellent story telling and amazing artwork, but because of things like this:

is that a monkey

Ok, so the monkey is actually an investigator who was turned into a monkey by a demon, but still…

 
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Letter Concerning Hispanic Immigration and the People of God.

10 Dec

In one of my classes, we were asked to write a letter to a congregation that was largely white and middle class concerning the influx of a large group of Hispanic immigrants in the community due to the opening of a meat packing plant.  Here is my response; it is largely devoid of references to secondary literature due to the nature of letters.

I’d love to entertain your thoughts and critiques. :: We serve the Kingdom, not the Republic

 
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Why the Black Hand had Bruces Skull

01 Dec

Blackest Night #5 015-16 If you’ve been reading Blackest Night, something quite odd happened at the start of the series. The Black Hand, one of the first Black Lanterns dug up Bruce Wayne’s skull and had been carrying it around for no apparent reason.  In Blackest Night 5, we find out why.

 

So the entire (surviving) Justice League has gathered around Coast City, where Neckron has stashed the Black Power battery (BPB).  The “White Light” Corps (WLC) shows up to save the day (apparently, the seven colors combined are one of the only things that can destroy a Black Lantern, see right to see a black guardian actin’ a fool ‘gainst the WLC and getting abso’ scribble-fied.) by attacking the BPB.  With the stage set, the following happens:

 

Blackest Night #5 020Blackest Night #5 021-22

Yeah, so the Black Hand has been carrying around Batman’s skull so that he could whip up a Black Lantern Batman (BLB).  But of what use would a BLB be?  And why now instead of at the very beginning (I hear Batman is something of a strategic fellow).

Blackest Night #5 023-24

Apparently, the Justice League loved Batman so much that they instantly create “emotional tethers,” which in turn allow Black Power Rings (BPR) to be slipped onto the person, which in turn allows Neckron to kill the person, which in this case is the entire Justice League.

Damn.

You don’t think that once the entire Justice League dies that Neckron will draft them into his Corps, do you?  Surely not:

Blackest Night #5 026-27 Oh shi—

 
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A Thanksgiving Day Apocalyptic Poem

25 Nov

From Julia Esquivel in Threatened with Resurrection: Prayers and Poems from an Exiled Guatemalan (Elgin: The Brethern Press, 1982), 79-91.  I love how it uses Biblical language and themes to remind us at what price our comfort comes.  I’m thinking hard this holiday season about the intersection between religion, politics, exploitation, and thankfulness.  I pray that we can slow our lives down to the point that we loose our lusts of luxury.

In the third year of the massacres
by Lucas and the other coyotes
against the poor of Guatemala
I was lead by the Spirit into the desert

And on that eve
of Thanksgiving Day
I had a vision of Babylon:

The City sprang forth arrogantly
from an enormous platform
of dirty smoke produced
by motor vehicles, machinery
and contamination from smokestacks.

It was as it all the petroleum
from a violated earth
was being consumed
by the Lords of capital
and was slowly rising
obscuring the face
of the Sun of Justice
and the Ancient of Days

Each day false prophets
invited the inhabitants
of the Unchaste City
to kneel before the idols
of gluttony
money
and death
Idolaters from all nations
were being converted to the American Way of Life

The Spirit told me
in the River of death
flows the blood of many peoples
sacrificed without mercy
and removed a thousand times from their lands
the blood of Kekchis, of Panzos
of blacks from Hati of Guaranis from Paraguay
of the peoples sacrificed for “development”
in the Trans-Amazonic strip
the blood of the Indians’ ancestors
who lived on these lands, of those who
even now are kept hostage in the Great Mountain
and on the Black Hills of Dakota
by the guardians of the beast…

My soul was tortured like this
for three and a half days
and a great weariness weighted upon my breast
I felt the suffering of my people very deeply!

In tears I prostrated myself
and cried out: “Lord, what can i do?
Come to me Lord, I wish to die among my people!
Without strength, I waited for an answer.
After a long silence
and heavy obscurity
The One who sits on the throne
to JUDGE THE NATIONS
spoke in a soft whisper
in the secret recesses of my heart:

You have to denounce their idolatry
in good times and in bad
Force them to hear the truth
for what is impossible to humans
is possible for God.

 
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Great Celtics-Knicks game

23 Nov

This is why I want Bron-Bron to go to the Knicks with Bosh or Howard [1] or (gasp!) Wade. [2] I love it when the Knicks are good, great, or loosing in the Finals.

  1. never happen [↩]
  2. don’t want this to happen! [↩]
 
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Reed Loves the Bottle

16 Nov

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Check out the Album on the Face Book

 
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Life Not All Guessing Games, Frog.

20 Oct

This is why I loved Sesame Street as a kid.

 
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Sometimes the Crowd Thins

08 Oct

I heard today.

[picture of a stool]

The Speaking of Rob Bell.

I loved it.

It was on the value of small congregations.

And on not worshiping traffic problems on Sunday mornings.

Sometimes the crowd thins.

Teach the truth.

Sometimes the crowd. Thins.

[lyrics of a 50's western song]

And on keeping a Sabbath rest.

And giving your spouse the best and not the left.
overs.

And giving your children the best and not the left.
overs.

While the style of writing is lampoonable.

[Picture of G. Boyd.]

Content and Speaking is of the Spectacular.

 
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On why I privilege some texts over others

02 Oct

young Survival mechanisms are what drives me to do privilege some texts over others. God was kind enough to reveal to us a set of writings that are not a nice, neat system. I see conflicts in the text anywhere form minor issues of actual history (when did Jesus cleanse the temple and on what day was he crucified?) to issues of OT genocide and the God of Love in the NT. Then there are things like women in ministry and the allowance of slavery (however it looked back then).

Ken Schnenck in a post on Open Theism, Calvinism, and Arminianism talks about the idea of controlling verses:

Strategies: All "interpretive groups"–Wesleyan, Calvinist, etc.–have what we might call "controlling verses" that fit most easily into their interpretive paradigm (these are usually the favorite verses, the ones they have their children memorize in Sunday School). On the other hand, they also always have what I call "naughty verses," verses that at least on the surface seem to conflict with their theology or practice (and these in turn are usually the controlling verses of the interpretive groups with which they disagree). In short, the controlling verses trump and lead to the reinterpretation of the naughty verses.

The books that I listed fall more readily into that category. The Gospels and the Early Pauline epistles have more of an egalitarian air to them (there is no male nor female in Christ) than the later Pauline letters (I suffer not a woman to teach). I don’t wanna throw anything out, but I do slip into allowing certain ones take the lead in forming my practice and theology. I am not sure this is a good thing, but it is what happens.

It creates all kinds of tension in my mind (and with certain Christians). But I suspect they are doing it as well, they just might not be aware of it. And the tension is already there, this is just how I deal with it. I am becoming more and more away of a plurality of voices in the canon. I wish there was only one and clearly only one.

Do you have controlling verses?  chapters? texts? 

 
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I can totally do that!

02 Oct

I love the pun, have read hair, a pasty-white body and, if pressed, can totally put on sunglasses. 

 
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Some Thoughts on Apostles and Authority in the Early Church

30 Sep

  From the inception of the Christian movement, there were the apostles as authority figures. They represented those closest to Jesus and his teachings after his assent. At the local level there was apparently a radical democracy initially. For instance, while the apostle Paul was the patron of the church in Corinth, he addressed his three or so letters, which were written at the mid-point of the first century, to the whole congregation instead of its leaders. It appears as though members on the local level tried to follow the promptings of the Spirit for direction, teaching, and leadership. This too is reflected dimly in Paul’s letter to the Corinthians. Post-canon, we see this thought reflected in the Didache. This radical democracy and overall lack of (human) leadership at the local level gradually gave way to authority structures in the churches. For instance, by the time the Pastorals were written, in the latter part of the first century, the writer was addressing particular members in the congregation.

We see in the record the development of the office of bishop. This office was, by design, to become the most powerful in early Christian groups. The idea was modeled after the Roman political system and attempted to have a centralized authority over a geographic location.[1] Instead ruling on the basis of human power, they were to rule on the basis of Godly Love.[2] While they were set up as the authority over areas, they did not have as much power as they would in the late 300’s. They had “few resources other than the power of persuasion”[3] such as political or civil power. However, they were more than adept at wielding rhetoric.

The Didache was very concerned with church order, as was Ignatius.[4] However, they were concerned with different sorts of Church order. Ignatius, with his drive for unity among the churches, opted for a centralized authority structure, where most of the leadership of a localized geographic community laid in the hands of a bishop.[5] The Didache, on the other hand, opted for a “more egalitarian and charismatic” (spirit-driven) model of Church order.[6]

However, this was not to say that the rural Syrian community that composed the Didache was not concerned with issues of authority, quite the opposite. It set forth all sorts of rules for the administration of church order. It itself is a structure of authority. It laid down rules for traveling prophets, protected against the abuses of “Christ-peddlers”[7] Didache 11:8 warns “But not everyone who speak in the spirit is a prophet, but [only] if he holds the ways of the Lord. From their ways shall the false prophet and prophet be known.”[8] So, the prophets were those individuals who gave the advice and commands of the Spirit to the community.

After apostles, bishops, and prophets, we have deacons. They were the overseers in the Christian community. While the Bishops were mainly concerned with holistic affairs and the administration of communion, the deacons were primarily concerned with the day-to-day individualistic ministering. We have women and men deacons in the record. We are sure that women deacons ministered to women and men to men. There seemed to be leadership of male deacons over women in public settings. It is debatable whether this applied to women as well. We have mention of the female form of deacon and the male form of deacon attached to women deacons.[9] It is unclear whether or not this was a regional naming, or if the male form of deacon was reserved for more universal leadership roles.

Gnostics attacked the above bishops precisely because they claimed to speak for all Christians in a given region. The whole of the so-called[10] Gnostic/proto-orthodox[11] conflict cannot be summed up in such small a space, but the conflict seemed to center around the public/private nature of the best teachings of Christ, what ideas to attribute to which apostles, institutional structures, and how to face persecution.[12] For instance, the Apocalypse of Peter attacks the office of bishop and calls such people (and some deacons) dry canals.[13] However, the conflict did force the generation of much scholarly work by the early church.

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Weekly Comings and Goings

27 Sep
  • just asked about power creating truth in one of my classes – have foucault in my mind and foucault was dismissed in the book we are reading. #
  • Just did a My Fitness Coach Workout w @Meredith_Imler. Now 4 sum tetris party #
  • just started playing Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. http://raptr.com/hundiejo #
  • Lecturing at MU conserning Canon formation at 4pm on the 23rd – come if interested #
  • watching planet earth : oceans #
  • RT @DiscoverMag: Sean Carroll liveblogs the Philosophy and Cosmology conference at Oxford: http://bit.ly/3VAzyI #
  • the power of referents is underappreciated. #
  • just started playing Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2. http://raptr.com/hundiejo #
  • writing my eJournal for my Method and Praxis class – its wierd…. #
  • The parenthood of God implies the siblinghood of humanity. Man, inclusive language does not roll off the tongue well. #
  • The motherhood of God implies the sisterhood of humanity. #
  • The fatherhood of God implies the brotherhood of humanity #
  • The fatherhood of God implies the sisterhood of humanity #
  • The motherhood of God implies the brotherhood of humanity. #
  • There is a structural similarity between those "researching" the emergent church and those "researching" Egypt in the early 1800s. #Othering #
  • I wonder how many people consuming books that research the emerging church have talked to emergents and gotten to know them on a human level #
  • Rather than attacking and their dehumanized constructions (or… straw men) in the books that people like themselves wrote. #
  • Where does justice, true justice lie? When does justice lie? #
  • RE: Hank! Thanks for your critiques. I am not a preacher nor have I ever been schooled in preaching. As such I welco… http://disq.us/d9lm #
  • RT @sprothero: So if atheism is NOT a religion, as most of u say, it is not protected by 1st Amendment rel. clauses. U ok w/ that? #
  • RE: Most likely, the RYR was caught between his jewish expectation of the messiah (whom he may or may not have thought … http://disq.us/d9mq #
  • just wrote fail as faith. Whoops. #
  • Youth Leaders – Check out re:Sound- http://www.midmovision.org/ -I cnt tell U how gd ths things R. If U're skeptical-send a scouting party #
  • man, the early ministry of the methodists was impressive. Talk about meeting the needs of the poor because they too carried the imago dei. #
  • what up midnight, eastern time? #
  • success is a dumbly spelled word. #
  • cats in the cradle and the silver spoon, little boy blue and drugs are awesome. #
  • Sleep or Leverage w/ @meredith_imler ? #
  • meredith's email was hacked today – if you got an email from her disregard it #
  • dang, kid! Reed is whining in his sleep and has been for 15 minutes. #
  • dig your hands in the dirt, children play with earth #
  • without the rain there is no me and no you. #
  • Reed and I totally took a 2.5 hour nap together. Ba-what? Ba-Boom. I am gonna need it – homework/BSU discussion till 11pm-1amish #
  • thinking about how to write my worldview as a short (1000 word) story #
  • Hey, five years ago – thanks for that sufijauanighn stevens album. #
  • phoebe says wht?Phoebe says i'm a woman deacon-1st deacon evr recorded as a matter of fact. http://is.gd/3Fr6B English translations B damned #
  • RT @StephenAtHome: if the undead get born again, do they cancel each other out? #
  • stopped listening after the 1st sentence :: http://is.gd/3FEHM . 4 analysis, C :: http://is.gd/3FEJ8 #Calvinism @#Arminian #Manichaeism #
  • Jem – Flying High. #
  • RT @thuggee: Now that my phone actually has MMS I can't wait to rarely use it. #
  • at @dunnbroscoffees while reed sleeps working on my worldview paper #
  • and…. guess who just woke up #
  • and…. guess who just woke up http://pic.gd/e0c379 #
  • loves lazy saturday mornings with fringe, eggs, gravy, @meredith_imler, bisquits, lil reed #
  • now for the energetic afternoon with Early Church Fathers, Worldview Essays, and either Poetics or Prophecy Sunday School Prep. #
  • RT @michael_bay: Its like normal bowling, but the pins are penguins and the ball is just me kicking. #
  • hey @MUA2 , who do all your alternate costumes suck except Thor and Spidey's? #
  • RT @meredith_imler: hoping Reed's cousin Judah is born today! #
  • follow saturday: once again, @hankimler , mostly for @meredith_imler 's sake. #
  • keep on rocking in the free world #
  • nature of the resurrection in 1 Cor 15? Is it just the pneuma soma? wht might it mean that we wnt have a sarx soma in the resurrection? #
  • Watching Bad Boys – Michael Bay IS global Warming. #
  • Poor Reed. #
  • bout to go for a lil drive to see if lil reed will calm down (currently printing worksheets for Sunday School) #

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Couple of thoughts on Women in Early Christianty

18 Sep

Patriarchal Early Church Fathers

There is definitely a record of activity and leadership within (though veiled) our canon and in the witness of the early Christians. Despite this strong egalitarian strain, there was a fierce patriarchal strain as well. We see this in the canon in places (mainly the later letters) and in the writings of some of the so-called church fathers.

Of particular note is Tertullian. Now, perhaps he is a bit too late for what we are talking about this week, but he was an early leader who helped shape later (and current) discussions on the role of women in ministry.

In On the Perscription against Heretics 41, he writes:”The very women of these heretics, how wanton they are! For the are bold enough to teach, to dispute, to enact exorcisms, to undertake cures – it may be even be to baptize.” While I don’t know to which supposed heretics he was referring, his attitudes what women should not do are clear. Elsewhere in On the Veiling of Virgins 9, he writes: “It is not permitted for a woman to speak in church; but neither to teach, nor to baptize, nor to offer, nor to claim herself in any manly function, not to say in any sacerdotal office. Let us inquire whether any of these be lawful to a virgin … nothing in the way of public honour is permitted to a virgin.”

Furthermore, he was very incensed at the Thecla tradition, for it authorized women to baptize. He writes in On Baptism 17: “But if those women who read falsely named writings about Paul adduce the example of Thecla as a license for women to teach and to baptize, let [those women] know that the presbyter who produced this text, as though adding something of his reputation to Paul’s, resigned his position, having been discovered, and having confessed that he did so out of love for Paul.”

There is so much importance packed into this last quote. Not only do we see the attitudes at play in the practice of writing in someone else’s name (a very common practice in antiquity and not necessary a bad one), but we see what was at stake for people in the canonical and extra-canonical writings. We also see why the Thecla tradition was actively suppressed and why despite of that, her cult became so attractive. And who knows about that bit about the confession – Tertullian might have made it up, or it might have just been what he had heard. What is important is how he used the story to delegitimize the Thecla tradition that was legitimizing female autonomy at the end of the 2nd century.

Evidence for Women Elders and Bishops


There are some inscriptions (though they are late) that hold up women as Elders and Bishops. Two of them are listed below:

1) Elder Kale, Centuripae, Sicily, 4th-5th Century CE

Here lies Kale the Elder. She lived 50 years blamelessly.

2) Elder Ammion, Ucak, Phrygia, 3rd Century CE

Diogas, the bishop, for Ammion [f.], the elder, in memory.

Now, these are much later than the time period that we are talking about, but I thought they were worth mentioning.

Additionally, we see later in Christian history, people arguing against women as bishops and presbyters. Epiphanius, in his Medicine Box 40, attacks the followers of Quintilla and Priscilla and says that among their followers there are women bishops, presbyters, and prophetesses. He says that they believe there is no difference between men and women’s natures. He closes his attack with references from the pastorals that seem to indicate there is a difference between women and men’s natures.

Shelving the issue of whether or not he is correct in his interpretation of the Pastorals, his writings are another evidence for women bishops and presbyters in the 300’s.

 
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Weekly Comings and Goings

13 Sep
  • just started playing Braid. http://raptr.com/hundiejo #
  • just zeroed out my inbox! #
  • Got the OK to upgrade to Bible Works Eight. So excited. #
  • the first set of notes from sunday's lesson on wisdom lit is up : http://is.gd/300bk – stay tuned for more updates! #
  • just started playing Braid. http://raptr.com/hundiejo #
  • things that I love – long, winding, verbose syllabuses #
  • RT @DiscoverMag: Parasites + Radiolab = Awesome: http://bit.ly/99DQc #
  • RT @DiscoverMag: What can we do with fat leftover from liposuction? Turn it into stem cells, for one: http://bit.ly/2m3kF8 #
  • aaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnddddddddddd Asbury OneATS has slowed down #
  • RT @columbiatribune: Burglars try to rip ATM from store http://bit.ly/ozUGo #
  • me me Reed giggled a lot together 5 min ago. #
  • The second post on Wisdom Lit (Types of Wisdom Literature) is up at the CYP Blog :: http://is.gd/330JL #
  • Trying to write my first academic writing after my thesis. My discussion post already has 4 footnotes over 210 words and three references! #
  • I clearly need to adjust my writing style #
  • "Jesus is Still Alright" just randomized on my iPod. #blastfromthepast Here is to rhyming every clause…. #
  • RE:tarded: Re:cycling "RE" in RE:front RE:of RE:all RE:of RE:your RE:products. #MarsHill #Puns #AnnoyingbutEffective #
  • The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern. Forgotten Christian Proverb #
  • favors a standardized format 4 online classes – or at least a standardized syllabus – i got 3 dudes who dole out info in 3 way & in 3 places #
  • RT @reelizja: after a long, frustrating day at work I arrived home to a greeting in the mail..from the Jury Commission Board. drats! #
  • (this tweet sent 2 U from….the future!) (though, b/c of my lack of time travel,it will arrive 2 U in yr present, which is the future) #
  • …and actually, I can travel in time, only forward in time at a year/year ratio of 1:1. But, it is time travel! http://twitpic.com/h59ag #
  • RE: @hundiejo No. No, you can't get away. From hell's heart, I stab at thee. For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at … http://disq.us/cy5j #
  • I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round Perdition's flames before I give him up! #Khan #
  • RT @DiscoverMag: How Slow is South Africa’s Internet? A Pigeon Is Faster (Literally) http://bit.ly/vsEwZ #
  • Christians should never be pure capitalists. – Tony Campolo #
  • RT @nprpolitics: White House Study: 1 Million Jobs Saved, Created http://su.pr/2ULGEF #
  • Few things bring peace like a clean desktop… I mean, like the spirit of God washing over one's self. #
  • Just saw a frat fishhook in an old man's hot. I knew they were tired, but not that tired! #
  • Just saw a frat fishhook in an old man's hat. I knew they were tired, but not that tired! #
  • kinda wanting to watch some old-school science fiction. Not action films in space. #
  • RE: @hundiejo @jrforesteros I think it happened in Red Robin. http://disq.us/czjn #
  • http://is.gd/39Abd wasps are evil, coopting viruses to their murderous purposes #
  • Governments are not agents of the Kingdom of God. But sometimes they can accidentally enact God's Justice for those that are suffering. #
  • RT @scotburbank: Is it wrong for me to hope that 'catapults' are so named, because cats were the first projectile? #PETA #
  • I should not be hungover. Didn't drink, just gave a talk and had a followup talk and a after followup talk ihop run till 1amish #
  • RE: I've read Stowers and loved it. I gotta say that I am just touching the surface of the waters. When I read Stower… http://disq.us/czlq #
  • RT @DiscoverMag: Your Eyes Reveal Memories That Your Conscious Brain Forgot: http://bit.ly/JUEaN #
  • RT @bradandrews: ReTweet this to register to win a case of The Jesus Storybook Bible Deluxe Edition. #JSBBible http://ow.ly/p0nm #
  • just started playing Braid. http://raptr.com/hundiejo #
  • watching BBC Planet Earth w/ @meredith_imler – Mind blowing. 1) marveling @almightygod 's creation & 2) Recent Earth Creationism is way off #
  • just started playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. http://raptr.com/hundiejo #
  • The real effects of Patriarchy :: http://is.gd/3bEEx #
  • RT @jrforasteros: Just passed a sign that said "Not forgotten. Not forgiven. God bless the USA". But we r not forgiven if we do not forgive. #
  • 1% of landowners are women #
  • The story of Saima in Pakistan, Kashf a microfinance institution, and hope. :: http://is.gd/3bHWx #
  • Obama is the offical size and wieght. RT @thuggee: Oh. http://twitpic.com/hfrmc #
  • How do Xians read OT Law texts? I am open to suggestions #
  • Just beat Braid. Thinking. #
  • I unlocked 3 Xbox achievements on Braid! http://raptr.com/hundiejo #

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Weekly Comings and Goings

06 Sep
  • might have broken my finger taking off my shirt (celing fan) prob didn't – just smarts #
  • nibbled on 3 and 5 hours of sleep past few nights… gobbled up a nice 60 min nap… and now be groggy like a [dead] froggie #
  • RT @Marvel: 4 everyone asking abt Marvel/Disney news, hre's the official wrd: http://is.gd/2Jst6 That's all thr is rt now, stay tuned! #
  • 'bout to put a bunch of books on amazon.com [they are ones I would not give to people with a few exceptions] #
  • Anyone want a The New Strong's "Illegitimate Totality Transfer" Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible for $15? :: http://is.gd/2KmNq #
  • Addiction reached a new level today – @meredith_imler and I now actively seek out decaf in the evenings #Coffee #
  • I'll giv U 5$ if U guess the price of "The Mystery of God: Early Jewish Mysticism & the New Testament " w/ $5 w/out looking it up 1st #
  • Sold 4 books off of Amazon within hours of putting them up for sale! #
  • "Can you imagine running with rocks in your balls?" – @meredith_imler on #RunningWhileBreastFeeding #
  • needs to make time for his departed friends @jrforasteros and @graceisunfair #
  • working on Canon Lecture and Rich Young Ruler Talks #
  • All complementarians (and egalitarians) would be required to read "In Memory of Her" by ESF #
  • Doing Chan's "objectively reading the Bible" w/o reguard to scholarship leads to dispensationalism and the Scofield Bible #
  • RT @thislamp: Breaking news: the 1984 NIV & the 2005 TNIV to be discontinued in favor of a new 2011 NIV. http://bit.ly/cf1H7 #
  • Really cool live local-social app for church events (service, small group etc) http://www.youversion.com/live #
  • sum [most] fundies [xian & athiest alike] just dont understand wht the Bible is sometimes. Try 2 use it as a screwdriver or a math equation #
  • Reading Origen's Commentary on Matthew RE: Why the Great are Compared to Little Children. http://is.gd/2LN9Y #
  • Get the Swine Flu Plush Toy :: http://is.gd/2LSko #
  • Whatup, bed? How do you like your skirt and risers? Oh, whats that, you love them? Thought so… #
  • gonna try out the new mass effect DLC #
  • CO2 Plan B[s] -> http://bit.ly/GRcDl #
  • getting my skype set up so that I am talks with @jrforasteros and @graceisunfair #
  • (getting @meredith_imler 's set up too) #
  • just started playing Braid. http://raptr.com/hundiejo #
  • Just found this on @christianbook.com – http://is.gd/2PUfO – wanna give me $400? #
  • http://bit.ly/ZIU5r #
  • https://services.google.com/fb/forms/wavesignup/ google wave signup form #
  • reading Stower's Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity – the key is praise, blame, patron and client #
  • RT @RELEVANTMag: An Outsider's Guide to the Christian Subculture: http://bit.ly/1pqGG #
  • just started playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. http://raptr.com/hundiejo #
  • just started playing Braid. http://raptr.com/hundiejo #
  • RE: I'd love for you to post some of them there or in a 'nother post. And Wright has a lot of sig. disagreements with … http://disq.us/ctql #
  • the term "emergent church" is offensive b/c "the real emerging church is the church in Africa, Asia, & Latin America…" http://is.gd/2SGyt #
  • answer: yes. RT @RELEVANTMag: "Intelligent Evolution: cn we believe in a Creator *and* evolution?" http://bit.ly/x62aS #
  • imloy? #
  • imloy? maller? #
  • excited for netflix movie date with @meredith_imler tonight – original Thomas Crown Affair + Popcorn and stuffs! #
  • fire dude is checking out the outlets at @kaldis #
  • firedude just asked me if that was my extension cord…. #
  • said yes – he said it was ok – as long as it was not #kaldis #
  • RT @nprpolitics: A Medical Mystery: Why Health Care Is So Expensive http://su.pr/2ERbrV #
  • RT @darthvader: When it comes to younglings, no one "indoctrinates" like your Dark Lord. #
  • just started playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. http://raptr.com/hundiejo #
  • just started playing Braid. http://raptr.com/hundiejo #
  • urinals, choose them wisely :: http://is.gd/2UoJm #
  • think i might be getting the flu – here's hoping no #
  • Writing lesson on Wisdom Lit in the Bible. Come 2 Parkade Sun @ 9:15am 2 learn how 2 read Wisdom & Letters in the Bible. http://is.gd/2VdXP #
  • RT @amazonmp3: Download "Hey Ya," a cover of the Outkast song by legendary soul leader Booker T. free http://bit.ly/8B4yr #
  • A watched Reed never sleeps… but so does an unwatched one! #
  • RT @CBSNews: Critics Charge Obama Speech to Students Will Be Political, But What Did Reagan, Bush Say to Kids? http://bit.ly/bolrt #
  • Remeber only Sci is valid knowledge… RT @almightygod: Don't question your faith. Just believe whatever you parents and clergymen tell you. #
  • really wishing he was taking classes at Asbury this fall instead of distance classes… #
  • RE: @hundiejo I wonder if any of them are available as audio books. All of them but the Herm and Letters books would b… http://disq.us/cv56 #
  • Sucess and and prosperity as God promises must be defined in terms of the created order, not materiality. #WisdomLit #
  • Wisdom is not the acquisition of cognitive knowledge, but a lived ethical concept. #WisdomLit #
  • follow friday (a day late) @hankimler #
  • RE: . In Wright's theology, our faith is not in Christ but in the Holy Spirit and the works He does in us, we are saved… http://disq.us/cvam #

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Glory for Glory

03 Sep

But the great story of Scripture, from creation and covenant right on through to the New Jerusalem, is constantly about God’s overflowing, generous, creative love – God’s concern, if you like, for the flourishing and well being of everything else.  Of course, this too will redound to God’s glory because God, as the Creator, is glorified when creation is flourishing and able to praise him gladly and freely.

- Wright, Justification, p. 70.

The above was one small part of of Wright’s critique of the Piper/Reformed notion that God is primarily concerned for his own glory, which Wright rightly calls divine narcissism.  For Wright (and for God), διακαιοσύνη θεοῦ is an “outward characteristic of God, linked of course to the concern for God’s own glory but essentially going in the opposite direction, that of God’s creative, healing, restorative … love on undeserving people, undeserving Israel, and and undeserving world.” [1]

I think discussion by Wright is especially interesting in light of the Volf quote we talked about a while back.

  1. p.70-71 [↩]
 
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Origen on Children and Rulers

01 Sep

 

Came across this today while I was reading Origen’s commentary on Matthew.

So too, moreover, one will humble himself like the little child which Jesus called; for neither haughtiness, nor conceit in respect of noble birth, or wealth, or any of those things which are thought to be good, but are not, comes to a little child.

Wherefore you may see those who are not altogether infants, up to three or four years of age, like to those who are of mean birth, though they may seem to be of noble birth, and not appearing at all to love rich children rather than the poor.

If, therefore, in the same way as according to their age children are affected towards those passions which exalt the senseless, the disciple of Jesus under the influence of reason [1] has humbled himself like the little child which Jesus showed, not being exalted because of vainglory, nor puffed up on the ground of wealth, or raiment, nor elated because of noble birth, in particular are they to be received and imitated in the name of Jesus, who have been converted as the Word showed, like the little child which Jesus took to Him; since especially in such the Christ is, and therefore He says, “Whosoever shall receive one such little child in My name receives Me. – Origen, Commentary on Matthew, Book 13, Section 17.

How spot-on is that? 

Picture: My nephew Cooper holding my son Reed while his brother Everett [2] looks upon them both.  Those three destroy Augustine’s argument concerning original sin.

  1. or the Word [↩]
  2. I may have spelled that wrong! [↩]
 
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Weekly Comings and Goings

30 Aug

    Theology, Politics, or Ethics:

    • Quadrilateral Thoughts: The New Testament Canon http://tinyurl.com/ma6j5l via http://www.diigo.com/~hundiejo #
    • Seeing warnings/encouragement in every calamity and every sunny day? http://is.gd/2v6Ef #piperstornatotheology #boydsbitings #
    • I don’t quite see what piper is seeing in Luke 13 and Romans 2, but I know he has thick systematic lenses. #
    • Only have four weeks to teach on *how* to read the Bible – attempting to cut out stuff from curriculum #
    • Me and my cousin:H: I know you republicans love guns. E: Yeah we do! H: Does Jesus love guns? E: Um.. I dunno. H: You should think about it. #
    • Suspect methodology aside, pretty cools maps of the Seven Deadly Sins in the US :: http://is.gd/2×80B #
    • RE: @hundiejo Edgar – how does your/a systematic theology answer this? http://disq.us/2602 #
    • RE: but I am not painting a false dichotomy (imho). I am saying that forgiveness of sins is located within Jesus’ lord… http://disq.us/260c #
    • RE: The Cross was the challenge and the Resurrection was the vindication of Jesus as Lord. We call people to repent an… http://disq.us/261w #
    • RE: @hundiejo Also, I think I need to mention that I am reacting against the idea that Christianity is just about a per… http://disq.us/2623 #
    • Justification by Wright just came in the mail today. #
    • #D9 RT @jakemalloy: they dnt cast any real Nigerians…not speaking any Nigerian language.. http://stuffnigeria #
    • Making brochures for welcome night @mizzoubsu , wishing @graceisunfair was still around (its kinda his thing)! #
    • Anyone know any “F” adjectives that are synonyms of serve? #
    • a Furnishing Faith? a Functioning Faith? a Flourishing Faith? a Furthering Faith? #
    • The only “evil” Africans Left #D9 RT @jakemalloy: they dnt cast any real Nigerians…not speaking any Nigerian language.. http://is.gd/2ALMO #
    • Just finished with Justification, Chapter 1 – Brilliant. #
    • Want, but too much monies http://is.gd/2ELuj [Israel's Ethnogenesis: Settlement, Interaction, Expansion, and Resistance] #
    • Actually recommended someone keep reading a McDowell book this past weekend – it felt weird. #
    • RE: Jesus came announcing (opening of Mark) and we should as well. St. Francis slogan is helpful to remind us that we … http://disq.us/6bar #
    • RE: But, as it is configured above, the essence is the announcement that Jesus is lord, not personal salvation. Salvat… http://disq.us/6cja #
    • trying a new approach to teaching SS: typing it all out on a blog post beforehand. it takes longer, but it gets everything out. #

    Personal:

    • Reed just screamed for 40 minutes straight at the top of his lungs. He is sleeping so hard right now. #
    • just finished giving the blog a new dark-comic theme with a new set of rotating header images (it’s how I detox) http://hundiejo.com #
    • Off to Columbia. Reeds 2 month appnmt in a few hours. #
    • Henry [T] Imler is on facebook now. ppl R confusing him w/ me, Henry M Imler… Wondering how 2 proceed as we both show up as Henry Imler #
    • We both added our middle names. #DoubleHenry solved. #
    • Quote of the Day: @meredith_imler : He’s awake… I might go crazy. #
    • I think I really like disqus for both comment managing and comment creation. :: http://disqus.com #
    • off to see D9 with the Imler-Malloy compound #
    • Things are so much more less stressful when you know you don’t have to travel 12 hours in a car on the weekend. #
    • Anyone else wondering about the portrayal of the Prawn by the filmmakers themselves? #d9 #
    • Installing Rosetta stone… #
    • #d9 – will blog about it this afternoon #
    • I am hiding all kinds of people on my facebook wall! #
    • Ha, “hugely” is a proper word. Wright just used it in his preface. Take that, O Me! #
    • New favorite phrase: “Genderly Asinine.” #
    • Garage sale today, Baby! #
    • And by Baby, I mean, thanks Reed for getting up at 4:15am and staying up…. ‘course, going to bed at 1am wasn’t bright on our part! #
    • Gosh, do you think one can teach three genres of biblical litrature in 30-40 minutes with time for examples? #
    • Reed just sneezed and I felt in on my foot – Imler lungs, indeed #
    • Great time with the Malloy – Reese – Imler households. Stir Fry, Big Brain Academy (Girls whooped us), and Garage Sale setups #
    • I wonder if I can talk about half of them on sunday and perhaps blog/small group the others? #
    • chillin’ at the sale on Meredith’s Gateway Netbook – I love the lil machine #
    • Garage Sale going well – preps for tomorrow and allergies are not #
    • just started playing Carcassonne. http://raptr.com/hundiejo #

    RTs and Links

    • RT @DiscoverMag: Unemployment can pay better than being a grad student. Doh. http://bit.ly/12C17i [via @UnscientAmerica] #
    • RT @CoMissourian: MU reports first-day enrollment is 30,831 and includes 23,659 undergraduates. At 5,620, freshman class is second-large … #
    • RT @DiscoverMag: What happens when you fake $2.25 million worth of cloning research? You go to jail, dude: http://bit.ly/5oHVH #
    • It seems as though today is retweet monday…. crap, that is not catchy #
    • RT @DiscoverMag: Circumcision: The Musical (or, at least, the latest from the CDC) http://bit.ly/EhUul #
    • RT @google: http://twitpic.com/f7umj – Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s telescope & all that it has helped us to see. #
    • RT @DiscoverMag: 21st-century Scopes/monkey trial – US Chamber of Commerce Wants to Put Global Warming on Trial http://bit.ly/919Vj #
    • Heat’s Beasley checks into rehab :: http://is.gd/2xekB #
    • RT @reelizja: New Post: taking a stance on healthcare. http://bit.ly/18FWMh #
    • #AutomantionVsHumanity RT @reelizja: just signed a going away card for someone being replaced by a software system. it feels dirty. #
    • RT @reelizja: new idea @ work: coffee maker updates brewing status / current level via twitter. #PracticalApplication #
    • The first full-disk image from the GOES 14 satellite :: http://bit.ly/IQoIv :: It has amazingly high resolution (1km). #

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