Archives for posts tagged ‘community’

the community embeddedness of naming

Recently my daughter was playing with our names, making abbreviated versions of each of the family’s first names. Being exceptionally interesting to me at the time it lead me down this rabbit hole of a thought. My name is Jonathan, though I have been called many things over the years. I’m also rather peculiar about [...]

concluding remarks on François Raffoul’s The Origins of Responsibility

I finished reading The Origins of Responsibility by François Raffoul earlier this week. There are definitely quite a few take aways for me. The biggest which I mentioned in a previous post, is the correlation between how we conceive of being and how we then conceive of ethics, and vice a versa. It is interesting [...]

week9&10 | exhortations: join the pilgrimage of faith || faithful living in community

We will be concluding this week. With these two concluding chapters, the author of Hebrews will lay out what it means to live out our faith, in light of everything he has said so far.

week3 | isaiah's commissioning

This week we will have several things to look at; the commissioning of Isaiah, the ‘Immanuel’ passage, Ahaz the faithless king, along with a continued judgment of Jerusalem.

the twitter-salvation connection

Going around the twitter-blogosphere recently has been the recognition that the vast majority of twitter accounts are simply those who have signed up, tweeted once, then abandoned the account. This isn’t a new phenomena, it actually happened in the blog world when blogs hit grandma-cool status a few years back. My question, is twitter like [...]