January 2011
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Ends in Themselves
“I suggest that these analogies [church as fill-up station or as football huddle] are radically insufficient and misleading. … Athletes do not play football in order to huddle and fans do not attend games in order to watch the huddles—what athletes and fans really care about are the plays executed whne the ball is snapped. People do not go on road trips in order to stop for gas—drivers and...
Dani Alves: more than a right-back » Zonal Marking →
“In terms of pressing, Alves’ combination of speed and stamina makes him possibly the best player in the world for that style of football. Individually he’s fantastic, but there’s also a case for saying it sets the tone for the entire side. Just as Xavi is even more important to Barca than his basic individual contribution (because he sets an example with his short, neat passing) Alves does the...
In Bed With Maradona » The Space Between →
“At 23, Arsenal’s Emmanuel Eboue was the provider for three generations of his family back in a war torn Ivory Coast. He once said, ‘I’ve got a big family, like Kolo [Toure], and everyone counts on me. I want to do my best for them and I send money to my parents, to my grandparents and, of course, money for the children in the family. I’ve also tried to help them out by finding houses and jobs for...
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On Labels and Their Necessity
Tim Challies has begun an important discussion on how we are to read theology—to which Scott Clark and Carl Trueman each have responded—brought on by his own reading of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer biography by Eric Metaxas. I’d like to offer a few thoughts to help us think clearly about what is at stake.
Challies cites two Bonhoeffer scholars (Richard Weikart and Clifford Green) who strongly object...
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It Creates That Which It Presumes
“The Gospel is not a religious message to inform mankind of their divinity or to tell them how they may become divine. The Gospel proclaims a God utterly distinct from men. Salvation comes to them from Him, because they are, as men, incapable of knowing Him, and because they have no right to claim anything from Him. The Gospel is not one thing in the midst of other things, to be directly...
WatchThis looks like a great documentary on an event that is often, as the trailer says, misunderstood and used by various people as stand-alone proof for their own versions of history. Can’t wait. [via Coudal]
Trailer – The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: an Urban History (by the Pruitt-Igoe Myth)
“Technology can be positive in an Orwellian sense. I feel like a kind of “Winston...”
– » Gary Shteyngart (via wesleyhill)
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Reconstructing the Pooh Community
“Probably most of you will be familiar with the Winnie-the-Pooh stories - the popular children’s books traditionally attributed to A A Milne. But you may not all be familiar with recent developments in Winnie-the-Pooh scholarship, which has been revolutionized in recent years as a result of one major methodological breakthrough which virtually all Pooh scholarship now takes for granted. This...
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We Are Not New Adams
“Adam was to have his entire obedience in the entire world determined through a particular test in a particular location. So it was for the Last Adam. Like the first Adam, the Lord jesus was confronted by the devil who tried to entice Christ to obey him, and King Jesus resisted the devil and conquered him. Like the first Adam, the Lord Jesus was called to priestly service, and Christ the Great...
On Restraint - The Run of Play →
“And really, what better sign of obsession is there than worrying about the effect your passion will have on the health of a conversation?”
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“The truth is that no man—
however generous
in gifts, however
bold in youth,...”
– » “The Seafarer”, from the Exeter Book, c. 960 AD, translated by Mary Jo Salter in The Word Exchange, ed. Seamus Heaney