Yazan: ayong | 29 July 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Theology
As many know, C.S. Lewis, author of a space trilogy known as the Ransom series, speculated on the possibility of life on other planets in his essay “Religion and Rocketry,” published in The World’s Last Night: And Other Essays. Moreover, the Vatican in the last few years has an expressed an openness to the possibility [...]
Yazan: ayong | 29 July 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Theology
As a follow up to what I posted on Monday, here’s an example of focusing on the content without ignoring the container. This is a video from the WorshipGod08 conference, where Ryan Ferguson is reciting Psalm 25, using the English Standard Version (ESV) translation. It’s about 4 minutes and very moving. If you want to [...]
Yazan: ayong | 29 July 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Theology
Retiring Netherlands bishop Tiny Muskens (not to be confused with any inhabitants of Middle Earth) offered the following proposal to the religious world: “Allah is a very beautiful word for God. Shouldn’t we all say that from now on we will name God Allah? … What does God care what we call him? It is [...]
Yazan: ayong | 29 July 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Theology
Jonathan Mitchell, “A Letter…to His Friend” (1649), quoted in Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe, The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England, p. 91: And truly when I am most near God,I have no greater request than thisfor my self and you, that God would useany means to make us see things really as [...]