By: Sam Stephens on June 27, 2014
I have been receiving several malicious ‘hate tweets’ over the last few days in response to my last tweet about my time with leaders and church planters in eastern India and the fact that the church is multiplying there. The one received today I thought was interesting. It said that people in Pakistan, Afghanistan and…
By: Michael Badriaki on June 27, 2014
Terry Eagleton’ book titled “Culture and the death of God” picked my interested for particular reasons. From the onset, I was impressed by Eagleton’s evidently brilliant layout of the changing relationship in religious affairs, mythology and art during the enlightenment through modernity and in post modernity. During the course of reading Eagleton’s literature, I found…
By: Carol McLaughlin on June 27, 2014
First things first, I felt a lot like Marlin trying to understand the turtle in the movie Finding Nemo, “You’re cute, kid, but I can’t understand a thing you’re saying.” While I recognize the value and need for us to discuss and unpack the differing influences from the Enlightenment and the transition from modernity to…
By: Fred Fay on June 27, 2014
One of my favorite stories I have shared with children is about Martin the Cobbler. He is the central character in Leo Tolstoy’s classic called “Where Love Is”. Martin, because of some very difficult situations in his life, has denied God. But through a visit of a missionary and a dream he believes God will…
By: David Toth on June 26, 2014
I met a fellow benchrest shooter a few days ago and we took the opportunity to have a conversation. He was quite talkative and needed no prodding to begin a long discourse on his reloading process and benchrest shooting style. For the unbaptized, benchrest shooting is an exacting discipline that requires precise and consistent load…
By: Phil Smart on June 26, 2014
Culture and the Death of God – Eagleton There are billboards on our interstate highway leading to downtown Grand Rapids that say……”you can be good and be atheist.” This is quite the shocker in my very religious Reformed area of the United States (the picture I’ve included is more akin to our area!). Eagleton, in…
By: Bill Dobrenen on June 26, 2014
In his very philosophical and satirical style, Terry Eagleton[1] attempts to uncover the flaws in modern philosophical thought that have attempted to defame religion, specifically Christianity, in Western culture. His style is very academic; yet he occasionally comes up for air to interpret and relate to a non-academic mind. Eagleton, to his credit, is arguing…
By: Chris Ellis on June 26, 2014
Culture and the Death of God by Terry Eagleton is an academic world-wind history of the 300-year funeral for God and the search to replace the idea of God with something else. It’s a project that Eagleton argues has failed and will continue to fail. What’s fascinating to me is that one wouldn’t think of…
By: Ashley Goad on June 26, 2014
Last week, I read Culture and the Death of God by Terry Eagleton. Last week, I also spent ten days in a small village outside of Mukono, Uganda. In the middle of a three-acre farm sits Agape Christian Academy and Orphanage. Fourty-four children, all losing one or both parents to AIDS, live here full-time. Another…
By: Liz Linssen on June 26, 2014
According to the UK Office for National Statistics, (ONC), Christianity is officially in steep decline in England and Wales. The figure for those who claim to hold to Christianity across all regions in these countries fell from 71.7 percent in 2001 to 59.3 percent in 2011. [1] Even more dramatic is the sharp increase of…
By: Deve Persad on June 26, 2014
Last week I attended the funeral of a woman, 31 years old, who tragically, inexplicably died. By the estimation of many, she had begun to make straight paths out of the broken roads that had previously defined her. She just graduated from college, seemingly had much to look forward to. However, now her three children…
By: Garrick Roegner on June 26, 2014
Well, this is the last blog I will write for my George Fox Seminary Doctor of Ministry program, so I thought it could be a bit of a summation of a couple years of study strained through this week’s reading of Terry Eagleton’s (Culture and the Death of God) witty take down of modern Western…
By: Sharenda Roam on June 26, 2014
In “Culture and the Death of God,” Terry Eagleton takes us on a fast interesting train through the variety of philosophies found in the eras of the Enlightenment, Idealism, Romanticism, Modernism, and Post-Modernism. He specifically discusses the topic of the Judeo-Christian God and the atheistic strivings that only helped morph God into other forms and…
By: John Woodward on June 25, 2014
At the top of my list of movies I most disliked is Terminator 2. My friends pressured me into see this movie in a theater years ago. I am a light comedy kind of guy, so an intense, shoot ‘em up movie is never to my liking. And this movie was the worst. The bad…
By: Miriam Mendez on June 24, 2014
Growing up in New York City one of the yearly school outings was a trip to Washington D.C. One of our significant points of interests was the Lincoln Memorial. As you walk in, lying between the north and south chambers is the central hall containing an enormous white marble statue of Abraham Lincoln. According to…
By: Cedrick Valrie on June 23, 2014
It has often been advised for leaders to be lifetime learners. This is good wisdom, but does imply that it takes a lifetime to learn new skills? According to the book, The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything… Fast, by Josh Kaufman, many new skills do not take as long to acquire as one…
By: Cedrick Valrie on June 23, 2014
Controversy is inevitable as long as two people are gathered together. One of the major controversies facing the local church is to openly allow gay couples within the local church. Some churches/denominations have split over the controversy. Others have made it clear that all are welcome with open arms. Ultimately, we must answer the…
By: Cedrick Valrie on June 23, 2014
President Abraham Lincoln is by far my favorite US president. No matter the book, article, or social media conversation about him, I get this sense that there is a consistent honesty about his life, legacy, and leadership, even amongst his rivals. Doris Kearns Goodwin highlights several of his leadership characteristics in her book The Team…
By: Julie Dodge on June 23, 2014
“Here’s the truth: ‘finding’ time is a myth.”[i] I’ve never been a highly disciplined person. I work well to deadlines, but pacing myself for something without a deadline has always been a challenge. When I care about something, however, I make time to do it. And what do I care about? People, mostly. The problem…
By: Clint Baldwin on June 23, 2014
When I consider Goodwin’s delineation of Lincoln choosing, Stanton, Chase, Seward, and Bates – his direct political rivals – to become major figures of his political team, I am reminded of the writer Baltasar Gracian and his text The Art of Worldly Wisdom. Gracian was a 17th century Spanish Jesuit philosopher who among other things…
