Third Sunday in Easter

‘If the Cross radically puts an end to all worldly aesthetics, then precisely this end marks the decisive emergence of the divine aesthetic, but in saying this we must not forget that even worldly aesthetics cannot exclude the element of the ugly, of the tragically fragmented, of the demonic, but must come to terms with [...]

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Second Sunday in Easter

‘I have spent a lot of time searching through the Bible for loopholes.’

- W.C. Fields

‘No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means.’

- George Bernard Shaw

‘Every verse in the Bible is virtually a concrete faith-event in my own life….I have been personally present [...]

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Easter Sunday

‘What hard travail God does in death!
He strives in sleep, in our despair,
And all flesh shudders underneath
The nightmare of His sepulcher.
‘The earth shakes, grinding its deep stone;
All night the cold wind heaves and pries;
Creation strains sinew and bone
Against the dark door where He lies.
‘The stem bent, pent in seed, grows straight
And stands. Pain break in [...]

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Palm Sunday

‘The church is sent into the world to challenge the false pretensions of the prince of the world, not in any power or wisdom or greatness of its own. It is sent in the power of his consecration. Its victory is the paradoxical victory of the cross. It is sent ‘bearing about in the body [...]

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Miroslav Volf on Adam Smith

This is one of a series of posts developing material read for a Gordon-Conwell course on Social Justice for the efforts of Christ the King Presbyterian Church to reach out to our city.  The full index of such posts can be found here.  Critical comments are encouraged.
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One of the books I’m currently reading is Miroslav Volf’s [...]

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