Matt Wiebe’s blog about faith and life.
Jac and I are reading The Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch very sporadically, but tonight’s session produced some particularly juicy food for thought. Hirsch contends that discipleship became very difficult during the modern period, as three powerful forces competed with the call of discipleship to Christ. These were:
The rise of capitalism and of the free market […]
From Pope John Paul II’s Fides et Ratio, § 31-32:
…there are in the life of a human being many more truths which are simply believed than truths which are acquired by way of personal verification. Who, for instance, could assess critically the countless scientific findings upon which modern life is based? Who could personally examine the […]
10 myths — and 10 truths — about atheism - Los Angeles Times
This article is written by Sam Harris, a fairly fundamentalist atheist in the ilk of Richard Dawkins. I first heard about him in a Wired article that describes how Atheism has fallen on pretty hard times as of late, and personalities like Dawkins and Harris are trying to […]
I have to save all of my creative juice for essays at the moment, but here’s a couple of posts that I’m finding particularly interesting:
Erika Haub blogs about reclaiming some aspects of the parish model. Keep reading into the comments, because she makes the interesting comment that the urban missional church that she helps to lead […]
