holy heteroclite:: "The Matrix in Real Life" by Improv ...
How Can The Bible Be Authoritative? by N.T. Wright
ntwrightpage.com/Wright_Bible_Authoritative.htm
N.T. Wright ... Second, by what means can the Bible actually exercise its authority
Kevin Vanhoozer Corrects N.T. Wright's 5-Act Hermeneutic ...
derekzrishmawy.com/.../kevin-vanhoozer-corrects-n-t-wrights-5-act-her...
Mar 7, 2014 - Tom Wright has thrice put forward a model for conceiving biblical ... acts are the “
The Five Act Hermeneutic (Scripture and the Authority of ...
deadheroesdontsave.com/2012/06/13/wright/
Jun 13, 2012 - Wright
(and this series) started off posing the following questions: If Jesus
has authority, ... How does Jesus exercise His authority through the Bible? ... that we are living in the 5th act and are free to improvise within the story.
How to Properly Read the Story of Scripture - Redeeming God
https://redeeminggod.com/how-to-properly-read-the-story-of-scripture/
NT Wright portrays history as a play with five Acts. (I) Creation, (II) Fall, (III) ... In previous posts, we have suggested that the best way to read the Bible is to read it as ... it should not be too difficult to improvise our part of the story in epic fashion.
Saturday Afternoon Book Review: N.T. Wright - Patheos
www.patheos.com/.../saturday-afternoon-book-review-n-t-wright...
Patheos
The Bible in Five Acts | Sharp Iron
https://sharpiron.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/the-bible-in-five-acts/
-from new interview with Ray Bradbury on God, here.
This guy keeps getting more God-haunted!
See also:
Ray Bradbury on God
-from new interview with Ray Bradbury on God, here.
The second time he repeated the phrase was just a few minutes minute later (13:00ff):
"Go to the library! Live in the library, for Christ's sake! Don't spent all your time on the g--d-- computer and all that crap!"
Then again at 14:25...
I wonder if anyone was sorry for inviting him.
I hope not..
Note: This is the same writer's conference that Eugene Peterson spoke at
(LOL.. I don't think EP used any coarse language..though I hear he is gracious towards that habit of Bono's).
By the way, that line about libraries and computers he also delivered at University of California.
He's equal opportunity. It probably didn't even cross his mind to clean up his language while at a Christian venue.
And maybe he meant "for Christ's sake" literally. (:
He sure loved the name of Jesus the day I met and I prayed for him...
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Enjoy:
Follow-up conversation below....delightful. See 15:52ff on religion, and 21:56ff on God ("We are here to witness and celebrate. Otherwise, get the hell out!.. We are here as an audience to the miraculous!"):
Related:
see posts tagged "Ray Bradbury" underneath this post.
The Day I Prayed for Ray Bradbury
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Sep 1, 2007 - The Day I Prayed for Ray Bradbury. Ray Bradbury smiled at me, and "amen-ed" my prayer. As one who grew up reading and relishing ...holy heteroclite:: David Crowder (the"flippin' semiotician")'s ...
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Dec 22, 2012 - holy heteroclite: ..... printing press (6) prostitutes (7) psalms (51) radiohead (13) Ray Bradbury (13) ray van der laan (20) reading the Bible (524) ...
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holy heteroclite:: Ray Bradbury and "God in your breast"
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Dec 22, 2007 - As a follow up to my The Day I Prayed for Ray Bradbury post.. I found this discussion on Bradbury and Christianity...mostly devoted to whether ...
Following Christ in a World of Distractions (RIP, Ray Bradbury).
Following Christ in a World of Distractions (RIP, Ray Bradbury).
From Mandy Smith's The Vulnerable Pastor, pp. 122-124:
Being a woman can feel like weakness. When you are a woman, your own body teaches you your
limits. From the time you're small, there is always someone bigger, with
a stronger body and a deeper voice. And as you grow, you learn how
little control you have over your own body, from a sometimes painful,
often embarrassing inconvenience that will visit you every month to the
strange season of having a person growing inside of you for 9 months.
When the little bundle makes its appearance, your body goes from creator
of life to sustainer of life. All kinds of new systems kick into gear.
It's a miraculous process but one completely beyond your control. As you
go from mother to grandmother, your body begins to change again,
throwing you into a state of confusion as the steady cycles you have
grown accustomed to become syncopated and erratic and then finally stop
altogether.
If being a woman teaches humility and collaboration, isn't it a strength to be a woman?
Inhabiting this ever-changing form forces you to acknowledge (even
celebrate) your limits and to sense your responsibility to and reliance
upon the broader community.
So if being a woman teaches humility and
collaboration, isn't it a strength to be a woman?
In the church, these are leadership skills.
Being an artist can feel like weakness. If you're an artist, you are spurred on by an
unending search for truth and beauty. You can have your breath stolen by
the smallest, seemingly insignificant thing and be unfit for anything
else but crying or singing or writing about it for the rest of the day.
And once you've found that tiny sign of hope, you must make sense of it.
And so you make things to process and express it, trying to capture all
the feeling and meaning for others through the limited media of notes
and words and paint. You step into a creative process that is sometimes
cruel and raw, a little too close for comfort. Then, with shaking hands,
you put that outpouring of your soul into a public form and hope that
someone understands.
If creative people know how to find truth and beauty, even when it's
hidden in brokenn
ess, if they're comfortable with mystery, failure, and
vulnerability, isn't it a strength to be an artist?
In the church, these are leadership skills.
Being an outsider can feel like weakness. Being on the outside means always having that
vague sense that you didn't get the inside joke. You feel like a child
again as you have to learn things that are obvious and basic to everyone
else. But over time you compensate. You learn not only to speak but to
listen in other languages. You become self-aware as those things which
were once transparent about yourself (back when everyone around you was
the same as you) are suddenly glaringly visible. For the first time you
feel the weight of the lens of your own culture, your own assumptions,
and eventually, you learn how to switch glasses.
If being displaced helps us relate to the ways God's people have always been the sojourners, isn't it meaningful to be displaced?
If outsiders know how to be flexible and self-aware, to communicate in a
relevant way in many contexts, isn't it a strength to be an outsider?
In the church, these are leadership skills.
Being an introvert can feel like weakness. Thinking of the perfect
answer a day after the question makes you feel dumb, even though your
belated but perfectly-worded response is more insightful than the one
given by the quick-thinker in the room. Needing to recover from extended
periods with people draws labels like "anti-social," even though you
may have great social skills. Longing for depth and complexity and
silence makes you feel like a precious egg-head in a world hungry for
sound bites and noise.
If introverts know how to listen, and are unafraid of silence, depth, and authenticity, isn't it a strength to be an introvert?
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More by Mandy on women and weakness -- KKKKK
This was the first thing that popped up when I searched Mark De Raud on Google - https://m.facebook.com/miacuppacaffe/posts/737482939643688 - I sure hope he saw this by now.
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lol probably not
DeleteThis is the paint I like from Mark De Raud because it inspires me love, carefulness, and generosity.
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Mark illustrated the cover to a book called My Home Town: A Fairy Tale of Two Cities to help encourage people to read. I like the random objects in the background of this picture, ALMOST as much as I like the man's facial expression.
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-Bridget Webster