Right before I ate breakfast this morning, I asked for some spiritual insight. It is ironic how I can ask something assuming that it 'might' happen later in the day and find the prayer answered immediately, with certainly. I had barely finished praying before I thought of guilt. I have things to feel guilty about-- even terrible. Regrets, sure. A ( Read more... )

"Have any of you heard of uncertainty reduction theory?" the instructor asked us this morning in Organizational Communication. I raised my hand--I knew it from Interpersonal. The point was that employees would typically rather have BAD news than be left in the dark...would rather know they were being laid off in a month than waiting for the axe to ( Read more... )

When we talk about the Sacrifice of Jesus we fixate on the crucifixion. Certainly, Jesus's death was a part of his Sacrifice but I believe it is a mistake to characterize this act as the entire Sacrifice of Jesus. Jesus made the Sacrifice in the desert (Luke chapter 4) long before he walked the road to Golgotha. Carrying the cross was the ( Read more... )

...I just realized, I may have had an epiphany that could cause me to be ostricised from the larger Christian community. I was walking back from the music building thinking about belief and I said to myself "That's it"
I believe the secret to the Christian faith may actually lie in the teachings of an early, radical, Jewish-Christian teacher. His ( Read more... )

Last school year was set apart from the previous two years mostly because, by last fall, I had become much more sure of who I am and what makes me tick. Granted, my self-hood remained ambiguous even then and remains in process. Never the lesss, I started off last year not in a position of fear and searching but in a more settled state. As some of ( Read more... )

This community has been inactive for far too long. I am here to revive the discussion.

So here's a question:

How do you pray?ETA: Certainly, depending on how you define prayer, you could, even should, always be praying, in everything that you do. But I know that I'm not usually consciously directing my words and actions towards God. (Maybe I ( Read more... )

Here's a broad discussion question:

How do we avoid complacency and ineffectuality as Christians?

That can open a number of doors and I purposely will not elaborate. Let's see some signs of life.

Jesus said something wise once, which came to be called the Golden Rule. It's not a principle unique to Christianity--- but something central to it.

"Do unto others as you would have done unto you." Treat people how you would like to be treated... in the future.

How about this, though: "Do unto others as you would have ^had^ done unto you."

I only ( Read more... )

*NOTE: Any references to the OED are not assaults on anyone's intelligience, just the exercise of a new found appreciation for word choice. Call it me being a more intense English major.

I happened to write a meeting down on the wrong date--- and so found myself at 300 Bessey Hall without cause. On the walk back to Old Hort to get my bike, the song ( Read more... )

We all do it. Jesus did try to warn us, in the parable of the sower, that we would sometimes be "choked by the worries and cares of the world" as if by weeds. I'm the same as anyone else and my focus drifts away from Spiritual matters (sometimes for long periods of time) only to come back during an over-long dinner prayer... hoping the connection ( Read more... )