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Showing posts with label 22.Ends.Means.Teleology.Idolatry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 22.Ends.Means.Teleology.Idolatry. Show all posts
2025-12-14

RIGHTEOUSNESS: Being made right with God

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This is a sample chapter from my Systematic Theology project " Theology for Thriving " . 📎MORE TO THE STORY notes are not part o...
2025-09-27

TIKKUN OLAM: Sharing in God's Mission to Heal the World

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This is a sample chapter from my Systematic Theology project " Theology for Thriving ". 📎MORE TO THE STORY notes are not part of ...
2025-07-25

Why does Veggie Tales not picture Christ or salvation?

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Many of us grew up watching Veggie Tales , or raised kids who grew up watching Veggie Tales. To this day I still sing " Where is my Hai...
2024-06-14

Metric Maladies: The Disease of elevating Quantity over Quality

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As Jerry Z. Muller notes in his book " The Tyranny of Metrics ", we live in an age of " metric fixation ". We use quanti...
2022-08-31

The Politics of God’s Kingdom

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For a long time I have said: Wherever there are people, there are politics. Politics are the distinctive ways of organizing a community, ens...
2022-07-04

Creating Goals to become your Best Self

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Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me h...
2020-08-27

Hope in a Hollow Culture

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“Meaningless! Meaningless!”  says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless!” (Ecclesiastes 1.2)  It is easy to lose Hope...
2020-05-01

The Crumbling Metaphysics of Mammon

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Despite radically different starting points, both the secular and religious person are duty bound, by the very fundamentals of their worl...
2019-09-18

The Abolition of Man after a decade (or more)

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Tonight I re-read CS Lewis’ “ Abolition of Man ” for the first time in over a decade. I now realize that, just as “ Mere Christianity ” h...
2019-05-12

Begin with the End in mind?

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To begin with the end in mind: This was an ideal of Christian ethics long before it was a catch phrase for design thinking, an axiom of c...
2019-04-13

Religion is in retreat! All hail the new gods!

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Recently a spate of articles have come out showing, yet again, the rise of “The Nones”, who have no religious affiliation , while traditi...
2018-10-09

Heresies Alive!

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This weekend I was honored to teach seminarians about the Age of the " Ecumenical Councils " and help them understand the heresi...
2018-09-11

Truth is always Stranger

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Tertullian once said “I believe because it is absurd”. It is the strangeness of an idea— it’s undeniable texture and inconsistent densi...
2018-02-06

The Lombardi Trophy and American Civil Religion

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This Sunday I was fascinated by the presentation of the Lombardi Trophy at the Super Bowl, and how it becomes the final sacrament at one...
2017-08-23

Idol Therapy

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When taken at their best Which is unfortunately far too rare Religion and Skepticism Are after the same thing To smash the idols Which ...
2010-05-02

Always Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing

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A Sermon For Year C, Easter 5 Copyright © 2010 Nathan L. Bostian Based on John 13:31-35, Acts 11:1-18 and Rev. 21:1-6 The duty of every...
2007-01-25

Should Christians use images?

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Today one of my college students sent me this question: _________________________________ Hey... got a question for ya, I'll try to ke...
2005-12-13

Santadolatry?

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Alright, I am not the biggest "anti-Santa" fanatic in the world.  I used to be, then I became a youth minister that occasionally h...
2005-01-07

Really? I hate that "god" too!

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Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty? They are higher than the heavens--what can you do? They are ...