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The hazards of reading on a battlefield |
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By Walt Russell in Summit Ministries' newsletter, Truth & Consequences, November 2009
As she worked her way toward the front of the room, I could tell the young woman was really angry at me. Her eyes were blazing and her jaw was set. This was surprising because the setting was fairly benign: speaking to a large evangelical church's singles group on "How to Interpret the Bible." At the beginning of my two times with them, however, I was already offending the troops! I braced myself. |
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Agapic reading: How to read the Bible and other literature to enhance love for God and neighbor |
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By Dr. David Naugle What is the purpose of reading? That is, what is the ultimate end or telos of an encounter between ourselves as human beings and literary texts? A variety of answers from various traditions could no doubt be marshalled in response to this query. St. Augustine, for example, made a very provocative suggestion regarding the final end of reading. On the biblical basis of the ultimate and penultimate commandments, the great Church father believed that the act of reading and interpreting the Scriptures must not rest contentedly at any roadside park until it arrived all the way at its final destination. In reading the Bible, he argued that we travel on a road that leads not to aesthetic pleasure, or mere knowledge, or to moral action, or even to Christian convictions, but rather to the destination of love. |
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English 10 |
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By Kim Essenburg at the Christian Academy in Japan
I’m excited that one of my English 10 students wrote, “I have no right to choose whether I should help or not; the day I chose to follow my consistent and loving God, I threw away the option of apathy.” |
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English 10 (Bahasa Indonesia) |
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Kim Essenburg, Christian Academy di Japan (44 murid)
Saya sedang bersukacita karena salah satu murid kelas English 10 saya menulis, “Saya tidak memiliki hak untuk memilih saya harus menolong atau tidak; Pada hari di mana saya memilih mengikuti Allahku yang konsisten dan pengasih, saya membuang pilihan keapatisan.” |
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Music theory: A liberal art in chains |
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By Ken Stephenson, presented to the "Christian Scholarship Conference" at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, October 22, 1999 After centuries at the core of all higher education in Christian Europe, music theory now receives no visible distinctively Christian input to the detriment of both Christian culture and music theory. The author calls for a return of Christian music theory through examination of Christian pieces, consideration of composers as human creations, application of theory to ethics, contemplation of acoustics, and reconnection of music to the rest of God's world. |
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