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Go scholars!
I learned two encouraging things last Friday in the class I’m TA’ing this semester on Jesus and the Gospels. Given that I had spent the morning practically trying to convince my undergrads… more →
Ich steh mit einem Fuss im Grabe
Go scholars!
ichsteh wrote 2 months ago: I learned two encouraging things last Friday in the class I’m TA’ing this semester on Je … more →
see me try to read
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ichsteh wrote 3 months ago: Hoping for a spiritual/intellectual shot in the arm, I opened Terry Eagleton’s Ideology, and w … more →
budding RC wannabe
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ichsteh wrote 3 months ago: I’ll say it again – the scourge of modern life is too much choice. The scourge of my li … more →
straight talk from WKQZ
ichsteh wrote 4 months ago: Bad: “I’d like to tell you about my spiritual journey.” Good: “I’d lik … more →
Trancendence and Meditation in Elizabeth Goudge
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ichsteh wrote 4 months ago: Almost two years ago now I posted about how people like to use the word trancscendence but I persona … more →
spiritual check-up
ichsteh wrote 5 months ago: I had a friend call me on my negativity today…not in general, about something in particular th … more →
Thoughts on the Trinity
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ichsteh wrote 6 months ago: It’s funny how the longer I spend in academia / older I get / further experience I have of dep … more →
Imagined Community: This American Life and the Communion of the Saints
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ichsteh wrote 9 months ago: Before I moved to Germany I was never a devoted fan of This American Life. I did really enjoy it wh … more →
Henri Nouwen's Meditative Experience
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ichsteh wrote 10 months ago: After having it on my radar screen for years, I’ve finally started reading Henri Nouwen’s The Return … more →
How I am / How I want to be
ichsteh wrote 11 months ago: There are tendencies within us and forces outside us that relentlessly reduce God to a checklist of … more →
Lemonade from lemons: Meditations on our glorious language
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ichsteh wrote 11 months ago: I think I’ve finally found the verb I’ve been looking for to describe the effects of sle … more →
Food for thought
ichsteh wrote 1 year ago: Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me … more →
That Old Bugbear: Multivocality, Tension, Paradox or Contradiction?
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ichsteh wrote 1 year ago: One of the greatest puzzles to Jews is how something seen universally in the Hebrew Bible as good, l … more →
On women who love rules and certainty
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ichsteh wrote 1 year ago: I can’t stop laughing at these lines from Death in a Tenured Position, a feminist academic mur … more →
Food for Thought
ichsteh wrote 1 year ago: Gerald May’s definition of addiction, if I remember it right from Lisa Graham McMinn’s b … more →
I'm finite, I can't see
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ichsteh wrote 1 year ago: Their height in heaven comforts not, Their glory naught to me; ‘T’was best imperfect, as … more →
Faith and Historical Criticism: An Uneasy Dualism?
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ichsteh wrote 1 year ago: I came across a critical summary by Gerhard F. Hasel of the Biblical Theology movement (active in th … more →
Purity and Danger
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ichsteh wrote 1 year ago: I just started Mary Douglas’s Purity and Danger (that is, her preface to the 2002 edition). Ho … more →
