December 2010
6 posts
twenty-ten.
2010 bests.
songs.
10. dry my eyes - paper aeroplanes
9. opposite of adults - chiddy bang
8. 10 mile stereo - beach house
7. nw apt. - band of horses
6. teenage dream - the rescues (not katy perry’s version)
5. run the heart - sleigh bells
4. wake up your saints - the national
3. grow till tall - jonsi
2. awake my soul - mumford and sons
1. sprawl II (mountains beyond mountains)...
The incarnation did not occur so that we could decorate trees and get upset with people who say ‘Happy Holidays’ instead of ‘Merry Christmas’. The incarnation is the coming of God
as man to fulfill what was promised and to stand as God’s yes to the world.
advent 2010 || theology of hope
Moltmann’s second chapter, Promise and History, is one of the best things I have read all year. He continues to develop his thesis that God is revealed in promise. This relates not only to God’s future but to God’s faithfulness in the past. God’s very character is grounded in his ability to remain faithful to what he has promised. This is to be understood in...
Richard Rohr on Advent via Brad Griffin of FYI →
“Come, Lord Jesus,” the Advent mantra, means that all of Christian history has to live out of a kind of deliberate emptiness, a kind of chosen non-fulfillment. Perfect fullness is always to come, and we do not need to demand it now. This keeps the field of life wide open and especially open to grace and to a future created by God rather than us.”
advent 2010 || theology of hope
I began my journey into the thought of Jürgen Moltmann this week to accompany my Advent reflection. I am reading with a few friends of mine, most of whom I believe are reading Moltmann for the first time. As I read his profound introduction and very technical first chapter I came to the conclusion that there is no better season to read Theology of Hope than Advent - and I thank...