May 19
To R. Scott Clark and his one sentence blogpost that says that the current UFO craze tells us more about journalism than anything else. This appeared in Heidelblog.
What do the photos and testimonies from military pilots tell us?
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May 20
To R. Scott Clark and his blogpost that says that culture, though being important, is not the most important thing. This appeared in Heidelblog.
Just as it is possible for a focus on culture to cause us to compromise what the Gospel says, so too can a neglect of culture do the same. We are not being given an either-or choice here. But that is what Clark seems to say and not say at the same time in the above article.
Yes, our culture does not give us the power of God, the Gospel does. But that is because while culture is an arena that we continually visit, the Gospel is the message from God. And as an arena in which we spend so much time, we should care about its maintenance and thus should be involved in that maintenance as part of loving our neighbors.
So the real issue about cultural involvement for Christians is how we can advance moral cultural values that give neither our faith nor ourselves a privileged place in society.
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May 25
Walt Garlington and his blogpost poem about the twilight of the West. He calls it the twilight because of the waning influence of the Church, for him that is the Roman Church, on the West. This appeared in the Imaginative conservative blog.
Are we seeing a twilight of the West or a changing from the magic mirror that tells one what one wants to hear to a mirror that is more baed in reality though it may be a bit overly critical?
The influence of the Church, including its Protestant, Roman, and Orthodox branches has brought a lot of suffering and heart ache to the world. And unfortunately, that is what Post Modernism is reacting to rather than the message of the Gospel. If we have problems seeing what Post Modernism sees it is because we are privileged and are judging the Church's influence on the West by how it has benefited us the privileged.
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