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Dallas Willard

Posted in Autonomy, Blindness, Brokenness, Culture, Experience, Humanity, Mankind, Spirituality, Westernism on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Recently a pilot was practicing high-speed maneuvers in a jet fighter. She turned the controls for what she thought was a steep ascent — and flew straight into the ground. She was unaware that she had been flying upside down.
This is a parable of human existence in our times—not exactly that everyone is crashing, though [...]

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C.F. Blumhardt

Posted in Autonomy, Blindness, Character, Christian Life, Commitment, Culture, Desire, Discipleship, Experience, Faith, God, Heart, Humanity, Love, Meaning, Sin, Social Problems, Spirituality, Values, Worship on May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

You rack your brain to solve the mystery of the Savior, but you would do better to examine the puzzle of your own heart. You should be wondering why you are so impenetrable: why your intentions, which are always so noble, are followed by so few good deeds; why, despite your pious impulses, your life [...]

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Graham Tomlin

Posted in Culture, Discipleship, Mission on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A church with a consumer mentality, where the laity are purely passive consumers of whatever is delivered from the front, will rarely be an evangelistic church. (Graham Tomlin, the Provocative Church, pg. 131)

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Tom Morris

Posted in Culture, Happiness, Humanity, Identity, Individualism, Knowledge, Mankind, Meaning, Pleasure, Searching, Values, Westernism on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The good life involves freedom, love, work, pleasure, challenge, friendship, community, service, and the sort of resources that can be used creatively. (Tom Morris – former professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame)

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Katherine Whitehorn

Posted in Christmas, Culture, Social Problems, Westernism on December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it. (Katherine Whitehorn, British journalist and writer)

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John Stuart Mill

Posted in Arts, Character, Culture, Humanity, Mankind, Social Class, Social Problems, Westernism on September 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in society has always been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor and moral courage which it contained. That so few [people] now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our times. (John Stuart Mill, [...]

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Douglas Coupland

Posted in Culture, Freedom, Happiness, Social Problems, Westernism on September 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

You see, when you’re middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of [...]

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Posted in Atheism, Autonomy, Culture, Imagination, Pantheism on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I am light, now I fly, now I see myself beneath myself, now a god dances through me. (Friedrich Nietzsche [1844–1900], German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture).

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C. Jeff Woods

Posted in Church, Culture, Spirituality, Westernism on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The church has sought to guide the spiritual lives of its members in very practical, reasonable ways. That sounds like a compliment. It’s not. Contrary to Western thought, spirituality is anything but reasonable and practical. (C. Jeff Woods, Congregational Megatrends, 1996)

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Jay Howard and John Streck

Posted in Arts, Belief, Community, Culture, Discipleship, Freedom, Individualism, Love, Music, Relationships, Renewal, Sanctification, Social Problems on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In focusing on individual belief, evangelicals have necessarily focused on individuals…poverty, hunger, abortion, drug abuse, and other such issues are thus approached as personal failings rather than social problems. Systemic elements simply aren’t included in the equation. (Jay Howard and John Streck from Apostles of Rock: The Splintered World of Contemporary Christian Music)

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