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The Terrifying Solitude of Scholarship

Posted May 2, 2013 @ 8:43am | by Tripp

Open our ears to hear you, O God, and our mouths to proclaim your glory and the beauty of your holiness... There is a kind of solitude in scholarship that simply terrifies me. It stumps...

 

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Tags: terror, scholarship, PhD, academia, neurosis, ethnomusicology
 

Wednesday Wonderment

Posted May 1, 2013 @ 12:37pm | by Tripp

Here is the view from my kitchen window Rhythm is the composed ordering of our perception of time. Situated culturally, these compositions reflect individual and collective aesthetics that are...

 

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Tags: peace, education, rights, sanity, sabbath, rhythm, time, memory, beauty
 

Challenging Liturgical Theology?

Posted April 24, 2013 @ 12:16pm | by Tripp

This has me thinking this morning. There's much work to be done. "While those within Radical Orthodoxy [or here] may want to suggest that they are too for the embodiment of...

 

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Blessed Ambiguity*

Posted April 23, 2013 @ 7:18am | by Tripp

Sometimes our symbols get in the way, distracting us from what is revealed through them. This apparent quandary is what often leads to Baptist iconoclasm. It is better, many of our forebears...

 

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The Rob Bell Blogalogue Part 8

Posted April 4, 2013 @ 3:21pm | by Tripp

God, Desire, and Italian Monkeys Hi Tripp, Sadly, this is our last post on Rob’s book What We Talk About When We Talk About God. As you stated my previous post was a...

 

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Rob Bell Blogalogue Part 7

Posted April 3, 2013 @ 11:01am | by Tripp

Getting Ahead of Ourselves? (The Controversial figure Rob Bell has created another firestorm with his latest provocative book What We Talk About When We Talk About God. Raven...

 

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Tags: Rob Bell, Adam Ericksen, Sojourners , The Raven Foundation, Getting Ahead of Ourselves
 
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