Tag: garden city
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Best of It: The Story and the Mission (Part 3)
[Series Index] We return to Chapter 6, “The Story and the Mission,” in John Stackhouse’s Making the Best of It. I’ve been reviewing the chapter section “The Christian Story – and Us Within It.” So far, we’ve seen how the biblical story might inform our ethical considerations and noted the importance of keeping the whole…
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C. Wright’s End of the World (Part 3)
The New Beginning is the final chapter in Christopher Wright's The God I Don't Understand. We saw in an earlier post that Wright subscribes to N. T. Wright's characterization of "life after life after death." Heaven is a "transit lounge" on the way to the new creation. So what can we say about the new…
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MEC: Recap of My Concerns
We are about to turn specific passages from Everything Must Change by Brian McLaren, but before we go there, I want to recap my central observations and clarify my perception of some key issues. My primary concern over the last eight posts has been McLaren’s claim that we live with a “suicide machine.” He generally…