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Forrest Curo's Blog – 6th mo. 2009 Archive (4)
What's Your Story?
I remember once being bothered by some guy's remark that he was taking the Bible "as story"--which I thought threatened to evade an absolutely crucial issue: "Is this story the truth?--or merely a fiction I happen to like?"
And now I'm slogging through NT Wright's The New Testament and the People of God. And one consideration I find compelling there is that we live in 'stories'--mental/emotional structures of intentions and outcomes--so that we make contact with physical… Continue
And now I'm slogging through NT Wright's The New Testament and the People of God. And one consideration I find compelling there is that we live in 'stories'--mental/emotional structures of intentions and outcomes--so that we make contact with physical… Continue
Added by Forrest Curo on 6th mo. 29, 2009 at 1:18pm — 2 Comments
The saints got it wrong.
After some time being annoyed by people who like to quote statements that "God has no hands but ours," I am pleased to announce that this has finally come out right in my head...
We have no hands but God's.
There are any number of things I would really, really like to accomplish. These are invariably things that I lack the skills, smarts, wisdom and omnipotence to actually do.
Okay, I've got these nice tactily-pleasant things that come in handy for good stuff… Continue
We have no hands but God's.
There are any number of things I would really, really like to accomplish. These are invariably things that I lack the skills, smarts, wisdom and omnipotence to actually do.
Okay, I've got these nice tactily-pleasant things that come in handy for good stuff… Continue
Added by Forrest Curo on 6th mo. 13, 2009 at 3:00pm — 3 Comments
Keeping It Grounded?
I was just reading a brief, possibly unfair account of a charismatic Anglican clergyman of the 1840's. 'Men were quaking; women were fainting' during his sermons. His bishop clamped down, and soon this man had gone off to start a church of his own, where his ceremonial public attempt to render a female disciple immortal unexpectedly (to him!) rendered her pregnant.
Okay... So we need more 'enthusiasm,' in the root sense of God being more manifestly 'in us'--but 'enthusiasm' in the… Continue
Okay... So we need more 'enthusiasm,' in the root sense of God being more manifestly 'in us'--but 'enthusiasm' in the… Continue
Added by Forrest Curo on 6th mo. 9, 2009 at 12:33am — 2 Comments
The Lamb of Babel
There are a whole lot of Friends who don't think the Bible matters much, one way or another. There are a great many who consider it vitally important, but figure it has a simple meaning which they accept and others reject. And by the American Assumption, anyone who doesn't know must be sure that the truth lies somewhere "in the middle"? My position is: None of the above.
I've been laboriously neglecting this Bible blog I blundered into (kwakerskripturestudy.blogspot.com) and ended up… Continue
I've been laboriously neglecting this Bible blog I blundered into (kwakerskripturestudy.blogspot.com) and ended up… Continue
Added by Forrest Curo on 6th mo. 2, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments
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