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Against the consumerist onslaught | Jamie Kiley
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Against the consumerist onslaught. October 27, 2008 at 1:12 pm. It’s that change of season again, where most women of the western world suddenly have nothing to wear and must buy new clothes. This morning, the top email in my inbox brings me up to date on the fashion imperatives for the season: Ankle boots are a must-have for fall! Blares the subject line. It’s tempting, I admit it. Although I’m not much of a shopper (my friend Josie told me this summer in an accusatory voice that I shop like a man!
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Jefferson, Galileo, and the myth of the flat-earthers | Jamie Kiley
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Jefferson, Galileo, and the myth of the flat-earthers. June 9, 2005 at 11:28 pm. I was sitting outside this morning, minding my own business and distractedly reading the assignment for class today, when I stumbled across this interesting find:. Galileo, claimed Thomas Jefferson, in an excerpt from. Notes on the State of Virginia. Was sent to the Inquisition for affirming that the earth was a sphere: the government had declared it to be as flat as a trencher, and Galileo was obliged to abjure his error.
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Surprise naked guy in Mark | Jamie Kiley
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Surprise naked guy in Mark. July 20, 2007 at 11:56 pm. So I ran into a serious surprise while reading the Gospel of Mark a few days ago. I’ve read through the Bible start to finish twice before and thought I knew most of the New Testament fairly well, but apparently not. I started from the beginning of the NT two weeks ago, I’ve already run into numerous surprises–and I’m only up to 1 Corinthians. Know there was a naked guy running around Gethsemane? Entry filed under: Uncategorized. That’s probabl...
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Royal ruins | Jamie Kiley
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July 23, 2007 at 10:06 pm. Surveying the human race as a whole, it’s pretty tough at first glance to decide whether humanity is primarily characterized by greatness or by debauchery. On the one hand, the race has produced the pyramids of Egypt and the Parthenon of Athens; we’ve figured out how to send emails through cyberspace and fly ourselves to the moon. How can we account both for humanity’s magnificence and our malevolence? In his recent article. As Pascal wrote,. Man’s greatness and wretchedn...
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God on Trial | Jamie Kiley
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September 17, 2008 at 10:12 am. Over the weekend I finished reading. A novel about which there has been a lot of hubbub in Christian circles recently. If you’ve read it, I’d love to hear your thoughts. Meanwhile, here’s one point that struck me…. After finishing The Shack, I read a negative reaction to the book over at Boundless. The author of the review, Gary Thomas, challenges Young not only for providing inadequate (heretical? But for asking what he thinks are inappropriate. And you shall answer.
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Life after internet | Jamie Kiley
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July 8, 2008 at 12:33 pm. It’s 10 months since I’ve had internet access. Access at home, that is. I can still drive a mile to the seminary building whenever I want free wifi, but that mile is amazingly inconvenient and strikingly effective at paring down my usage. Funny Internet access used to be classified as a need; now it barely even makes it into the “want” category. But I’m glad to be back in Michigan now, where “connectivity” is sufficiently inconvenient to preclude much usage. Life after internet,...
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Original sin: This story resonates | Jamie Kiley
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Original sin: This story resonates. November 8, 2008 at 5:11 pm. Certain new theologians, G. K. Chesteron once noted, dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved. Catholic I am not, and therefore my understanding of original sin differs somewhat from Chesterton’s. Yet despite all that, I am convinced with him that original sin is real, and I know it’s real because I can look around and see it manifested all around me and, yes,. Donald Miller, writing in.
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Sin is… | Jamie Kiley
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November 17, 2008 at 3:14 pm. Sin is ignorance, said Socrates. The good, he felt, they would do it, and the only reason not everyone does the good is because they are uninformed. If Socrates is right, then education is the solution. Sin exists because of lack of knowledge, and mere information will save the sinner. But what Socrates leaves out, of course, is the notion of defiance. No concept of human culpability in his vision. Knowingly do the wrong. Education does not make the difference. The crucified...
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To defend is to disparage | Jamie Kiley
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To defend is to disparage. September 22, 2008 at 8:31 am. I read Kierkegaard’s. A couple weeks ago. I’m here to tell you, that guy is abstruse in the extreme! But it was a worthwhile read. A comment on one of the [relatively minor] points of the book:. This rings true. The times in my life when I have been most anxious to defend Christianity are the times when my faith was weakest and my experience of Christianity least potent. Entry filed under: Uncategorized. Against the consumerist onslaught. Charles:...
