Agape Blog
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Sapiential Eschatology
Sep 17, 2012
Read more...Biblical scholar John Dominic Crossan of the Jesus Seminar coined and uses the term sapiential eschatology to refer to a … concept: “ Apocalyptic eschatology is world-negation stressing imminent divine intervention: we wait for God to act; sapiential eschatology is world-negation emphasizing immediate divine imitation: God waits for us to act. ” —John Dominic Crossan, The Essential Jesus: Original Sayings and Earliest Images (1998), p. 8
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Who the Son has Set Free is Free In Deed (and your little tongue too!)
Sep 10, 2012
Read more...Reblogged from leftthumbprint: A blog called Nation of Wussies written in October 2005 bemoaned what the writer saw as the deterioration of boldness in spreading the good news by pressing for rights to speak. In this blogger’s sights specifically the right to say Merry Christmas was all the rage on Christian radio I believe. The author felt it fed right into the flavor of the time, PC or political correctness. Read more… 1,848 more words
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Dan Cathy of Chick-Fil-A How About Lunch?
Aug 27, 2012
Read more...Dan Cathy of Chick-Fil-A How About Lunch?
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Aung San Suu Kyi : Nobel Prize speech June 2012
Jun 16, 2012
Read more...Aung San Suu Kyi : Nobel Prize speech June 2012
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love in motion life in the divine crazy
Jun 5, 2012
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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes ‘Awww!”
— Jack Kerouac
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