Thoughts from books
racial capitalism
Twain, in his lecture notes, proposes that "a sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience" and goes on to describe the novel as "a book of mine where a sound heart and a deformed conscience come into collision and conscience suffers defeat".
On Huck, from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Jesus is a foil for the brother of the prodigal son.
Ideology as religion, religion as ideology
Faith is to receive the future as present.
Sin as over self-awareness
Core Christian Practices
Reconciliation
Unity in Christ
Life as vocation
God doesn’t support our ideas and options - He defines them.
How/where good intentions get into trouble
NC: Well, we are told relentlessly that the world is doomed. The media amplifies this idea to the point of hysteria. We are conditioned to only see the world in terms of oppression and corruption and degradation. To some degree it is hard not be sucked into this torrent of despair, to become hardened and cynical. However, it doesn’t take much to... See more
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