Eye-Deep in Lies — Brian Zahnd
Eye-Deep In Liesby Blindman At The Gate Why is it that if we dare to envision a world without war(A hope offered humanity by the prophet Isaiah bar Amoz)We’re considered hopelessly naïve or even treasonous? Why is it that everyone knows Jesus taught the way of...
A Great than Solomon — compiled by Brian Zahnd
A Greater Than Solomon - Matthew 12:42 Ecclesiastes is a divine revelation of the vanity, futility, emptiness and absurdity of life apart from a relationship with the living God. Ecclesiastes it is the natural, earthly wisdom of the sages and the...
A Contemplative Response To Our Present Economic Super-Agenda — Jeff Imbach
A Contemplative Response To Our Present Economic Super-Agenda “When civilizations start to die they go insane.” So begins a recent piece by Chris Hedges. “Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt,” he says. “Let the temperatures rise. Let the air,...
Review of Anna Yin’s ‘Wings Toward Sunlight: Poems’ — by Ron Dart
Anna Yin, Wings Toward Sunlight: Poems, 2011 We had the experience but missed the meaning. -- T.S. Eliot There is poetry that speaks to the head but never touches the deeper recesses of the heart, and there is poetry that massages the heart but does not...
Review of Milton Acorn: In a Springtime Instant — by Ron Dart
Milton Acorn: In A Springtime Instant: Selected Poems, James Deahl (ed.), 2012. Milton Acorn (1923-1986) was the most dynamic, controversial and prophetic Canadian Anglican political poet in the latter half of the 20th century. Acorn was a poet who spoke to the people...
Anatheism: Returning to God after God — Ideas (CBC radio) with Richard Kearney
Public discussion of religion tends to polarize between two extremes: religious fundamentalism, and the aggressive atheism of such writers as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. But much of what people actually believe falls somewhere in between. It is subtler...
The Evangelical Sanhedrin: Weighed and Found Wanting by Ron Dart
The National Association of Evangelicals was formed in 1942, and built into the mandate of such an Association was a distinct way of understanding what it meant to be an evangelical and Christian. Such an organizational vision (and those who defended it) formed what...
North American OPF Conference 2012
Acceptance is the Answer — A Clarion Meditation
1. Start with meditating on this statement: "It is what it is." This statement originates with Luther's Heidelberg Disputation, 1518, where he says, “19. That person does not deserve to be called a theologian who looks upon the invisible things of...
Mary and Martha — In Solitary Confinement — by Neaners
This is the first of several reflections Neaners had on the story of Mary and Martha in the gospel of Luke. From his context, he reads the familiar story not as the old tension between action vs. contemplation, busyness vs. prayer, but competition vs. unity at...